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Philosophy Now
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Demons of the Self

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Tristen Taylor finds problems in meaningfully defining ‘evil’.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/148/Demons_of_the_Self
popeye1945
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Evil is when one intentionally makes the existence of another creature more unbearable than it naturally would be otherwise.
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popeye1945 wrote: Thu Apr 28, 2022 6:57 am Evil is when one intentionally makes the existence of another creature more unbearable than it naturally would be otherwise.
Can't mollycoddle* those mamma's boys. Intent could be woven into the definition. Is the intent of unbearable challenges to liberate spirit, or crush spirit? The intent shines through.


* I figured that word would crop up at least once.
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I agree with the definition, which makes all those who eat meat supporters and participants of evil, even if not actually the perpetrators.
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The demon:

The game plan, against the theology aristocracy's convenient relay, of body glamour's good vs evil story despite the privilege of symmetry apparatus to body glamour, involving the analysis that if theology can't mimic part of the structure, that's the basis of the game plan, is Yasmine Akram's fuck of smile to me.

Mason Dertry's morality idea, projected to him from Thomas Heath's abstinence from aftermath to publication using the proximity of citation convenience parody, that he is against the whole system of body glamour's sweeping under the rug its abstinence from political affairs (the insinuation mathematics, of this political issue by Mason Dertry, being that modernity using classic images paradigm of theology's own making is too far a symbiosis stretch to the abstract existence's no use of written text), is a game plan sanity.

Moreover:
The self-identity right, of part of written text structure being able to use the macro text's activation of game plan against theology, along the condition of theology not using just the questioned part of written text (this now invokes the external observation master's reliance on scale using time to time mathematics of everyday sociology) is a generator of freedom, to the basis of game plan text within Yasmine Akram's original assessment.
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Self-hatred is an odd thing. It comes back to haunt us all at any point in our lives. It is, in most circumstances, our constant companion, forcing us to perform things that only a demon-possessed person can do. When it haunts an entire nation, it is at its most virulent. Many nations are enslaved by this devil and wind up tearing themselves apart in the process. This act of cleansing is a form of self-violence. But the question arises how can we overcome and defeat our demons of ourselves and get inner peace. For some, the only place for inner peace is just in the grave but some are trying to get the inner peace and fighting their demons who are living inside by meditating and praying. Also, some spend time with nature and family. These all are decent options to get inner peace but to defeat the demons of ourselves we should take responsibility for our actions and have to face our mistakes.
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Veganman wrote: Sat Apr 30, 2022 3:08 pm I agree with the definition, which makes all those who eat meat supporters and participants of evil, even if not actually the perpetrators.
Veganman,

Are you under the impression that by not eating meat one voids the reality that life lives upon life? One cannot escape this reality, plants are just another life form that garners the least respect.
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