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Agree or disagree; certain animal instincts are mistaken as ''evils''.?

Let's take lust for example. It's considered an evil sin, but sexual desire HAS to exist. If nobody wants to have sex, we'd all die out because nobody is having children. I can see it as foolish, obviously if I'm having sex all the time with anyone I want, I'm putting myself at risk for all kinds of diseases, but I cant see it as evil, unless the sexual attraction is towards children, corpses, pain etc. So are certain ''evils'' not really evil but just basic animal instincts?

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  • Matty
    Lv 5
    7 years ago
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    Completely agree. "Evil" and "good" are human constructs. These denote the socially accepted ways of behaving and those frowned upon. Humans like to divide things and pick a side but in all honesty, both must exist and because they both have a role to play, neither is anymore important than the other. They are just different.

    By no means am I condoning murder, rape, or anything, I'm just saying that it happens. It will continue to happen and the more we fight it and vilify it as "evil" the more prevalent it will become. I think.

    Source(s): My opinions are my own.
  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    Truly, nothing can be truly a sin because sin is a belief that religion takes on with it. From our society alone, the acts that are described as immoral and unethical were agreed up on a majority by which most people agree not to do. Therefore, having sex with any aged people and with anything, is not, if and of itself, actually a bad thing at all. If you were to live like all other animals, there is no difference between good and evil.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Yes, I do agree. But that doesn't mean that misbehavior doesn't happen in the animal kingdom. There are rules that even animals must follow when they live together. Our human standards are just different than theirs. And of course it probably depends on the type of animal we're talking about. An animal that lives its life alone would benefit from stealing from others, as a survival mechanism. An animal that lives in a group would probably disrupt the hierarchy by stealing. Then the instinct of stealing would be bad in that situation.

    But for your example, I totally agree. Animals feel no shame about having sex. They don't feel shame about most things anyway, since most of it is necessary to survive. We shouldn't feel shame about our own bodies or our sexuality, but we do. Even thought there's no real shame in what's natural about ourselves.

  • 7 years ago

    Sexual desire is a natural impulse to drive us for reproduction. However, we may have different response or handling on those impulse. Renunciation is another option.

    Luke 11:28 But he said, Yea, rather blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Since you're using lust for example, so will I. No lust is not evil, it's natural. You may extrapolate from this answer as you see fit.

  • 7 years ago

    Lust isn't about ordinarily wanting sex, it means wanting sex despite harmful consequences, like lusting after your neighbor's wife, or wanting sex with an animal or with someone who doesn't want to have sex with you, etc.Our animal instincts are only evil if we don't control them.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    When we are just what we are we are considered "bad".

    When we are what we are not (naturally) we are "good".

    Humans are naturally passionate, violent, lusty creatures. If we didn't have social rules we would be killing each other all the time. That's why there is a war somewhere on the Earth everyday.

  • 7 years ago

    The instincts of life can be seen as evil. Life can be appearing as if it was designed by the mischievous or nasty devil.

    Life can appear as if your own God, your own loving Sky Daddy, did create you so that you should go with deadly weapons in your hands and with your brain between your legs. You may end up suffering and thinking that the meaning of life was to be evil.

    When you do expel somebody from the place where you are for your own more safe and more extended living space, when you do kill the enemy, when you do kill and devour a beast for your own survival, those acts that are good for you are evil for the person that you did expel from your place and for the beast that you did kill for your own food.

    As for the sexual life, while your own Sky Daddy did make love with Himself all alone in order to create His human off-spring that should love and adore Him, people in this world do look as if they go with their brain between their legs with their animal instinct of getting off-spring. The sexual instinct must be much intense sort of irrational otherwise it can more easily get under control for so reducing the growth of (human) life in this world.

    The growth of life does sort of need to be ferocious instinctive in order to try and avoid the risk of seriously diminishing and of disappearing.

    Life on this most often most ferocious dangerous world seems to be designed for ever more daringly trying to prevail, to conquer all the landscapes, to adventurously wander towards the near and far horizons, to audaciously fly towards the immense heavenly stretches towards the yonder cosmos.

    Humans do try to mitigate their instincts in the hope of some moments of peace, for some sense of well-being and of freedom. Human beings can want to try and live a celibate life, without sexual unfolding. Human beings can resort to morals and to good old religion in order to bring some hopefully good order and some glowing perspective into their living.

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