lithien:
>>so we get to a very
>>simple and organic statement which is : evil is what harms you.
>wouldnt that render evil relative to who is suffering? surely evil is more
>than that.
That applies to the specific culture we were discussing in that post,
it's not a general definition of evil. In a society where your main
concern is to survive, it is necessary to focus your perception (and
myths, language, the whole thing) in the most obvious threaths, physical
and natural. So it is more likely to figure evil as the snake that drags
you to the bottom of the river than to a philosofical devil.
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thiago
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