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What is the difference between good and evil?

i know i asked this question a little earlier but the answers were a bit bland, so i'm gonna try again.. please explain why you believe the difference you give.

i realize that this is a harder question than most people originally think so if you could just answer the best you can.

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  • 10 years ago
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    i believe the human sense of good and evil comes from our emotions and what we have been raised to believe. the concept probably didn't even exist until civilization came about, and then developed with people to the point where certain acts that used to be for survival became horrible. for example human sacrifice used to be an act of survival to certain believers and now it is seen as a barbaric display of savagery.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Well Good and Evil can be a point of view. Like in a war both sides see that the other is evil and they are good. Usually they victor of the war makes them them the heroes and the losers the villains. In other terms evil can be described as doing bad intentions, breaking laws, or just ding the wrong thing. Good is doing the right intentions , following the law, and do whats right.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    10 years ago

    I dislike moral absolutism. What may be good in the eyes of someone may be bad in the eyes of another. Take the Israeli-Palestinian situation. While compromise is what everybody else seems to want, neither side in the debate wants to see what they consider their lands handed over to the other side, so an agreement would mean that both sides would be losing something.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    the right distinction comes right down to the authority of the Church. Protestants do not settle for it, and hence something that relies upon upon that authority or the sacred oral custom this is preserved by ability of the Church, is rejected by ability of them. i replaced into raised Methodist, and converted to Catholicism 14 years in the past. be at liberty to e mail me in case you have any particular questions. @Pinx - The Ascension is approximately Christ, not Mary. if you're going to attack Catholicism, it extremely is extremely useful to get the info promptly first. Mary replaced into "assumed" into heaven, meaning God took her up, physique and soul. Christ ascended into heaven, under his very own divine ability, as a results of fact he's God. there's an excellent distinction and Catholics understand that. i did not even examine the the remainder of your submit heavily, i'd desire to easily see it replaced into packed with merely as many misconceptions.

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Good and evil are moral ideas that we have. It shows that God exists. For if God didn't exist, where do we get our ideas from? Why are we shocked by human trafficking and poverty and child labour? It happens everywhere. Gravity happenn everywhere - why are we not shocked by that? To atheists, good and evil mean nothing, because the existence of good and evil shows that God must exist. But to theists, good is anything from God and evil is from Satan.

  • 10 years ago

    Good is when something is done which is considered God's will. Loving, long suffering, patient, hopeful, respectful, and dedcated to what is beneficial.

    Evil is doing something that is ruinous, poisonous (figuratively), harmful, selfish, diabolical, hurtful, slanderous.

  • 10 years ago

    good is not having a bad intention on whatever that you intend to do and knowing that it is the right thing to do for both your benefit and the receiver!!

    Bad is this when you act smart and try to kill people with an easy simple common sense question...is sex good or bad?if you think its bad,then why do we have to do it to have a baby..??

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Constructed social morals.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Evil is self-seeking causing pain to one's self, or another. Good is all that is opposite.

    Source(s): I am speaking as a theist.
  • ?
    Lv 4
    10 years ago

    Good= nothing but God

    Evil= everything that comes from Satan, including Satan himself

    Because the Bible tells me so.

    Job 2:4- "Skin for skin!" Satan replied. "A man will give all he has for his own life."

    Leviticus 26:1- "Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God."

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