What is the definition of an evil person? I guess that it would sort of depend on who you ask. Like, if you asked an athiest, they would probably give an answer saying something along the lines of an evil person being defined by whether or not their actions are evil. If you ask a christian, they would probably tell you something similar to the idea that no person is evil, but a person's actions are.
But then you get into the whole arguement of what the definition of evil is. Being a christian myself, I consider evil to be a wrong-doing in the eyes of God. I realize that that sounds a little extreme, but I think that our culture greatly emphasizes evil being something really serious, like murder.
Do I believe any one person is truly evil? No. I believe that all people are born with God's laws on their hearts. Unfortunately, other influences help decide how well each person listens to those laws.
This also brings personal morals into the subject, but I don't want to get into that right now. Expect a rant soon, though.
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Good? Evil? They are abstract words deemed by society to represent that which helps and that which harms. Some things most society considers clearly evil, such as the Holocaust, but others are less clear, such as driving a car, which damages the environment (undisputably bad for the world, but nobody considers that evil [except the hippies]).
"What is done out of love takes place beyond good and evil." -Nietszche
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