On Thursday, January 3, 2013 5:35:00 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: > > Hi Craig Weinberg > > Do you know anything about jurisprudence ? >
Only as much as you do. > It doesn't care > if your motivations were good or evil, it only cares if you > broke the law or not. > Did I contradict that somewhere? > > Serial killers are generally thought to be sociopaths, but > they don't usually have much success cooking up an insanity defense. > That's why I said "There may be people who are born sociopaths". They are the mindless, heartless purveyors of cruelty and evil, > evil as defined by laws. > Is evil defined by law? First you say that jurisprudence is all about establishing whether you broke the law, and not whether someone has evil motives, but now you are saying that evil is defined by laws. > Jurors and judges under the legal system determine if you break laws or > not, > not whether your motivation was good or evil, although that could > have some influence on the type of punishment. > Yes, so? > > > > [Roger Clough], [rcl...@verizon.net] <javascript:> > 1/3/2013 > "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen > > ----- Receiving the following content ----- > *From:* Craig Weinberg <javascript:> > *Receiver:* everything-list <javascript:> > *Time:* 2013-01-02, 12:13:04 > *Subject:* Re: Re: The evolution of good and evil > > > > On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 6:39:17 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: >> >> >> ROGER: There are two opposing forces in the universe, those which enhance >> life, which we call Good, and those which diminish life, which we call >> Evil. >> >> CRAIG: I can't relate to cut and dried ideas of Good and Evil or >> enhancing or diminishing of life. >> It seems completely disconnected from reality to me. If it was that >> obvious, why wouldn't >> everyone just do the Good things and avoid Evil things? Obviously our >> experiences have >> many layers and qualities which change dynamically. Anything can be >> interpreted as >> enhancing or diminishing life. Chemotherapy Good or Evil? >> >> ROGER: Good people tend to do good things, evil people to do evil things. >> > > The Stanford Prison Experiment proves that this is not true. There may be > people who are born sociopaths and born humanitarians but overwhelmingly > people's actions are reactions to their circumstances. > > >> Chemotherapy is thought to do more good than evil. >> > > By doctors trying to cure patients of cancer, not by the cells of the body > being poisoned. It sounds like when you say that good enhances life, you > are talking about the lives of human beings and not any other species. If > pressed, I suspect that good is further defined as that which enhances the > lives of human beings which you consider to be good, which will, I suspect, > turn out to be those people with whom you personally relate or admire. > > >> >> <SNIP> >> >> [Roger Clough], [rcl...@verizon.net] >> 1/1/2013 >> "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/ePt2Uf7MeNsJ. >> >> To post to this group, send email to everyth...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+ >> unsub...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/eo-BouQWicEJ. > To post to this group, send email to everyth...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-li...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/1goybItgwaEJ. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
