Good Vs Evil - Why Evil Doesn't Actually Exist

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[jd]

I came to the same conclusion about good and evil being subjective back in 2005 during a period of OCD driven guilt. The realisation helped rid me of the nauseating guilt I felt. I hadn't really done anything bad but OCD can give you irrational fears of being a terrible person. To realise that being a "terrible" person was actually subjective anyway was a great weight off my shoulders! At the same time, I realised that it isn't just good and evil that is subjective, but all meaning us humans give to everything in existence. Many would say this is a very depressing thought which makes life seem pointless, but I found it freed me from all the preconceived and culturally imposed ideas of how things are/should be. Just because nothing has any inherent/universal meaning, it doesn't mean that you cannot continue to create meaning for yourself, as I have done, it just makes you realise how limited we are as a society when we believe in the existence of such absolute objectivity.

[joestar]

Taoism figured this out thousands of years ago. Carl Jung helped refine it with the concept of the Shadow.

[priscillaescobar]

While I understand what you are saying, I personally believe that what most of us deem as evil, are acts or the intention to harm another being. Therefore, if you kill someone with the intention to protect yourself, then it's not usually seen as evil. It's all in the intention and in some cases it's not so clear to see the intention behind ones actions. Example, Hitler might have thought he was doing the right thing by creating the "perfect race", but when you cross the boundary of doing harm to another being, then I would say that is Just my thoughts....

[cuttingedgetint]

"Do not look at external sources for the answer"
* literally 3 seconds later
".. maybe read some books to gain perspective"

[tim]

people are so easily brainwashed, if I was evil I'd try to convince everyone there was no evil so there'd be no opposition once they awakened.... ("greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people he didn't exist")

[mondobear]

This is nonsense; a word game using the word "evil." Evil simply describes specific behaviors that cause others horrific suffering. For example Auschwitz, torture, slaughterhouses are considered evil. People can play language games to pretend otherwise but is it a wise use of your mind and time?

[DjDutchMen]

Finally ! Someone who shares my same view on the life! For me good and evil are all imagined categories in the head

[allenmorgan]

To see past good and evil we have to harmonize the opposite forces within our self. The way to do that is to find the center between the extremes in every area of our life, the middle way. As long as we lean to one end of the spectrum the opposite will manifest to the same degree. Opposites are mutually created. One comes into being through the other. When we find the center, we find balance, that is when the ego dissolves and we become aware of the Oneness or Unity of the whole of existence. In reality we are the empty space at the center of everything.The middle path is the way to enlightenment.

[larry]

What people mistake as evil, is simply fear. There is no evil. But there is fear. Yet, fear is ultimately baseless. So the real problem is .... that people are delusional.

[Shougun]

I am listening to Nosferatu trying to convince me there is no evil, while pointing his slender, vampirish, evil fingers at me. Right.

[brucecolemancfo]

I really didn't like this video. You can't see evil, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist!!! That's like saying happiness doesn't exist, because you can't see it. I have been watching a few of this man's videos and I seriously question his logic on most things. He is just over-analysing things and getting it all wrong.

[HitchinsGrant]

In this video, Leo uses an example of pride of lions to provide support for a point.  This point is that if people renounced the existence of good and evil, the world would not necessarily become a darker, more dangerous, more chaotic place.  He states that “[…] a group of about 10 lions, laying in the Savannah somewhere” don’t have a sense of morality, and few people would claim that they do.  He’s of course correct here about the lions not having a higher concept of morality as we do.  

Leo claims that, despite being devoid of morality, the lions do not attack, kill or cause harm to other lions (except rarely) and this indicates that humans likely wouldn’t either.  While this example seems good, it’s actually quite misleading.  Indeed, a pride of lions—or a pack of wolves—would not often kill members of their own clan.  But the moment you introduce a different, competing pride or pack, the fighting is bound to take place.  

Although Leo tries to subtly liken a 10-animal lion pride to mankind as a whole, it’s more accurately likened to a single family.  Yes, if a human family believed no moral absolutes existed, it’s members would still be unlikely to kill each other.  This is primarily because of a sense of camaraderie, or collective survival interest, which also keeps those 10 lions from killing each other.  However, nature would indicate—from the lions or wolves themselves—that morality-denying humans would in fact lash out against other families, races, or social classes when they inevitably showed up as a threat of survival or prosperity (just like competing lion prides or wolf packs).  

Especially seen in the lower class, where people often have to steal to eat (which threatens the victim’s prosperity and frequently survival), it’s really not hard to see how different social classes or families would become threats to others.  

I urge anyone watching these videos to not simply take up Leo's views (which are really Eckhart Tolle's views repackaged, and which he himself has already said you shouldn't do).  Just because he has thought about these things several steps beyond what you have, or the ideas he presents are interesting, I'd recommend questioning those as well--both from the common sense perspective that Leo claims is strictly egoic, as well as from his mindfulness sort of perspective.

[ActualizedOrg]

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[chrisa]

This has really helped me stop feeling guilty about beating my racial minority wife. Thank you Leo! I am just correcting her. I am making her a better person.

[moel]

I completely agree, reality is neutral, reality is one. There is no separation, we create the reality of duality.

[spyralspyder]

The whole idea of evil seems silly to me. Everything depends on circumstances within or without of our control. Decisions are never completely in your control.

[hartley]

I'm probably twice your age and have looked at this a very long time. Keep questioning everything, eventually you will see that this definition is very lacking ...and naive. My friend, evil is real and independent from whatever you think or want to believe. The world is far more complicated than how you explain it, although that is part of it. There are many layers, dimensions, even entities beyond just what you see. Don't be so narcissistic, you're too intelligent to settle for that. 

[alainvosselman]

Wanna experience the TRUE realm of absolute evil : Just find a narcissistic friend or some malevolent sociopath, psychopath. IF you survive.... let me know what you learned Oh... another thing : U wanna discuss evil and aren't mentioning any of these disorders ???? You should revalue the term

[carlosatreides]

If evil doesn't exist than neither does good. You can have light without shadows but you can't have shadows without light.

[Isabelle-jsln]

Saying evil doesn’t exist is just a way to justify doing and getting away with evil acts.