Thread: What is Evil?

Originally Posted by Del1r1um

...If someone is now worm-food, what does it matter how they treated another pile of worm-food a hundred years ago...

One crucial aspect buried here, is that we can choose to act in a different way. We can learn from their experience and not repeat the mistakes they made.

Ya know, one of the other things being left out here is the concept of a just judge. We are all in fair agreement that there is a spectrum of good to evil. Between all these good lines is missing the idea that we do not trust others to be our judges when we seek justice for a wrong done.

I'm thinking along the lines of "Who watches the watchers?" Our democracy allows those who act in an evil way, the same regard for their rights as anyone else. But there are obvious cases where the outcome is not trusted. How do you rectify that problem?

One example is the farce presented when politicians are allowed to influence the choice of a judge for the Supreme Court. No one seems concerned about fairness or impartiality, or the potential justice's sense of good or evil.