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Many people have a tendency to deny the reality of evil. In the world, this may mean denying what our lying eyes plainly perceive. This may also extend to thinking of evil not as really evil, but merely as good in disguise — a type of optical illusion. Anyone who has come face to face with evil will have trouble buying that one.As in the days of Noah.
I am not sure what is more rare among humanity today; the knowledge of right and wrong, or the ability/desire to see it in daily events.The sad thing is that we are essentially born with the knowledge of right and wrong. It's just that so many are able to get away with anything that people just choose to ignore their ethics and morals.
Jean Michel I'd disagree.So you're saying that we are born into this world as a blank slate with absolutely no concept of good and evil?
Ethics and moral standards are fostered to a receptive mind, right and wrong is an understanding of one's experiences and acknowledgement of how they fit within ones society.
Many people have a tendency to deny the reality of evil.And so they spin their wheels trying to understand human nature. One cannot understand man unless one understand the reality of evil.
Mayday Mike "Make-believe" is a powerful tool in the arsenal of subjugation.Absolutely. And the reason for this is that human beings recognize and respond to events in terms of belief. We all orient ourselves by our beliefs about the world - it's the nature of human beings to do this. Those beliefs may or may not have anything to do with supernatural beings, but they do point to the existence of a rich inner reality that isn't dictated by the physical world. That fact bears thinking about. People are fooling themselves if they insist that an outer reality determines and forms their experience. The opposite is true. What you believe determines both what you see and what you come to understand about what you see.
One other point, I'd like to bring up. We live in a world of both good and evil, unfortunately today we spend most of our time thinking (based on lies), doing and speaking about evil things (lies), sometimes knowing and sometimes not knowing. Each day we spend less and less time thinking, talking and doing good.Why?
'evil' must have the elements of sheer unreasoning malice, complete viciousness and unrelenting hatred.Yes, but it often dresses itself up in a smiley face and initial kindness to set you up. It's not so easy to see through at first.
Comment: See also: Evil is Real: What do J.P. Sears and UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld have in common?