What is the Non-Theistic answer for the problem of Evil?

Just don't do it.

I've never heard that saying. There are a lot of explanations for "evil". Dealing with it should be according to the cause.

I'm not one for excuses about society and upbringing. There are too many good people that were raised in less than perfect circumstances. These people should be dealt with harshly.

Those that come off as evil because of a mental deficit should be treated and kept away from society until they are no threat to others.

Pure and simple, I consider evil a matter of harm to other people - it can come in physical, emotional, and psychological forms. The world comes in many shades of gray. For example, the Jews who were used by the Nazis to control other Jews in the ghettos were cruel to their fellow men - and yet they were only doing what they had to in order to survive. What is uniequivocally evil for one person may be good for the next.

Because I consider the world to exist in many shades of gray, the only form of evil that I feel the government should legislate against is that which causes physical or obvious emotional harm to another person, and never via consent (for example: don't ban a tattoo artist who scars the skin of his customers, but imprison the guy who attacks random people on the street).

Evil is a hard concept to define. For instance, in Exodus it says that a god killed the first born children of Egypt in order to free the slaves from captivity. Killing children is evil, plain and simple. But so is keeping men in captivity.

What is good and wrong is quite hard to define and circumstantial, thought there are some obvious absolutes (do not kill or steal) for most situations. Humans will have to determine the rest.

Then again, these problems may be a sign that evil is just a subjective concept applied on a case by case basis. A thanksgiving dinner is good, but "evil" to the turkey who was killed. Maybe atheists should just view the world as a group of people with competing interests, instead of in strict good/evil terms.

As long as there are human beings in the Universe, there will be evil. Evil is a purely human trait. The solution is to eliminate the human race!

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Evil is only a problem to explain if you have first imagined a perfect being put us here because of love and have to reconcile that with bad stuff happening. If get past that you realize it's just stuff happening.

Epicurus was wrong. Evil is just an absence of good. If you lack morality, you're prone to doing things that appear 'malicious.' So in a sense, there is no such thing as evil. But it's just as there is no such thing as darkness--there is only absence of light in varying degrees.

It's not as dualistic as it sounds, there aren't two different things--there's just one thing in varying amounts. Evil, therefore, is either the lack of morality, or a dearth of sanity which causes a lapse or lack of morality.

"good" and "evil" don't exist in nature. They are simply man-made concepts to describe what we feel is fair or unfair.

"Evil" is a concept that rides right alongside "good". It's not something that can be defeated or quelled. One will never triumph over the other.

Extremist Muslims who behead non-Muslims are hailed as heros by their peers. To the rest of us they are cowardly savages.

Evil is not scientifically verifiable, therefore it does not exist. Nor does good, for the same reason.

Evil is not a confound to any non-theistic belief, so it needs no solution.

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

the answer to EVIL is LOVE and forgiveness the answer is JESUS