From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Michael Harney wrote: > > > > As for christian reconstructionists being "evil", I disagree. > > Evil implies malicious intent. I don't believe that their intents > > are malicious. I just think they are misguided. > > > No, evil implies [Heinlein's definition, or some paraphrase] causing > unecessary pain to sentient beings. Hypothetical: Someone is driving along and their brakes go out without warning. An accident occurs that results in one or more deaths. Even if what happens is a total accident, it is evil? Are you sure Heinlein's definition wasn't *intentionally* causing unnecessary pain to a sentient being? > There are vast classes of Evil that are done with the purest of > intentions, like building a cleaner world with only a few thousand > happy human beings - so let's kill the other 5,999,990,000 I'm sorry, but you have oversimplified the example to the point that you can't see the trees through the forest (Yes, I meant it the way I typed it) . An intentional murder or harming of another *requires* malicious intent. If you have intent to deliberately harm someone (regardless of justification) that is the very definition of malicious intent. Malicious intent means, quite litterally, wanting to do harm to another. For an act to be evil it requires intent to do harm to another, ie: malicious intent. Michael Harney [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
