re: #85 brookly red

And then to evil. The biggest thing about evil is always that good folks rationalize ways not to act. The best way to do it is to call something clearly evil, something else.

but isn’t that exactly what you hold against the religious right?

Not at all. Let’s use some common sense here ok?

I do not want to get into an abstract game of defining good and evil. That is a sideshow and not the point.

There is a very basic understanding of what is good and what is evil that pretty much every decent person has regardless of religious background.

If you for example see a teenage prostitute and think that here is a poor child that needs help, you are thinking good. If you think she needs prison time to punish her for her sins, you are being evil.

If you think that the state should be careful to only execute people who it is absolutely certain are guilty then you are being good. If you think that of the state executes 100 and 10 were later found innocent, but 9 out of 10 ain’t bad, you are being evil.

If you think murdering doctors who perform abortions is a good thing, you are evil.

The list goes on and on. I hope you get the point.