re: #746 iceweasel

1. they are ignorant about minorities, gay people, and women, because thet have virtually none in their party now
2. They are apathetic about redressing that ignorance, because they like a world in which white hetero men have all the power, and foolishly believe that’s the path to regaining political power.

That was easy. This is why I don’t like the prior definition of evil, see?
:-)

That is also the other reason that I did not try to define it in a secular sense. It really does come down to a case by case call much like pornography. There are grey areas where most can see how the call could go the other way, and then there are clear things that only the delusional would deny are evil.

Really the whole Kantian box of worms that any attempt to go further, without invoking a deity gets deeply convoluted and ultimately only reinforces every interlocutor’s particular starting views.

Now I am going to cheat. As a Jew, I define evil as that which is outside the will of G-d and I also say that man can never know the full will of G-d. This effectively produces the same result. We all muddle through as best we can with the tough calls, but we get the idea that gang raping infants in front of their mothers is clearly evil.