Judge a person by his actions, not his skills, pros or cons. Sociopaths intrigue me, so much so, that I published a novel, Molly Bonamici, which has a few sociopathic, even likeable characters.What makes someone evil or good is always easy... Good people help others while evil people kill and steal for their own selfish desires. "‘Good’ means a lack of self-centredness. One of the twins later encounter his father in an attempt to stop the dark forces. Evil is misplaced or misdirected energy. "For "evil" to be an aberration implies that there is a standard from which it diverges. Jesus, the central figure of Christianity, is commonly associated as the ultimate good - opposite Satan, the personification of evil.
This concept has also fuelled wars and conflicts throughout history, and even in the present day. good and evil are not a person, place, or thing but an end result. Like Donald trump with America. If all of us were "wired" not to need love, empathy, and compassion in order to feel "normal," we would act as sociopaths do. The father helps his son when he is in danger, killing the dark lord that he has followed for quite some time and dying in the process. Lack of empathy leads to consequential thinking and let's a person think clearly by weighing the results of an action and decide if it's the logical thing to do.Well stated analysis, but I'd be careful using Ghandi as my saintly paragon of virtue. What made Darth Vader such an interesting character is he was absolutely convinced that he was on the right side, restoring order to the galaxy and preventing a brutal conflict. The COVID crisis throws into relief what happens when grief has—quite literally—nowhere to go. In his campaigns against British salt and textiles, he planted the seeds of India’s disastrous notions that trade equaled exploitation, that autarky and protectionism would save jobs, that machines and technology were the enemy.It took until 1991 for India to shake off Mahatmanomics. The philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that "good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this—the only right is what is after my constitution—the only wrong is what is against it—what I must do is all that concerns me." If you combine the two, you get malignant narcissism, known as the 'root of all evil. But after describing "good and evil" as "flexible", he attempts to justify this statement not by speaking of good and evil itself, but the capacity of humans to be a bit of both, and to "move" on the moral spectrum from "better" to "worse" or vice-versa. The main difference between a psychopath and a sociopath is heredity. It makes groups believe that they are fighting a just cause against an ‘evil’ enemy and that once the ‘evil’ people have been killed, peace and goodness will reign supreme.Human nature is infinitely more complex than this, of course. I certainly like to speak to anyone. Nevertheless, one salient example of this theme is John Steinbeck's East of Eden. Should homosexuals be allowed to marry? One Word Protects Your Brain from Diabetes and Dementia Evil is shown here where two very important characters die because the overshadowing of evil over good did not allow them to be together. No questions asked, that's undeniably selfish and wrong.What is a sick idea of justice? About 3 years before his death, Jesus spent 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness. Were their actions taken on behalf of civil rights "good" or "evil"? They're jealous and can't love.Wow, so many comments to this article! In essence, Ghandi was more a knee-jerk, celebrity activist (a la Jane Fonda, or Sean Penn) than a truly enlightened, "good" leader of mankind.Good = Self-Sacrifice = God as allegory (Good = God)Einstein reportedly commented that "scientists make poor philosophers." It's malevolence and sadism. It means benevolence, altruism and selflessness, and self-sacrifice towards a greater cause — all qualities which stem from a sense of empathy.
Then, doors of compassion can open a little within the understanding that the individual's state is, as it always was and always will be, his or her own responsibility within the struggle for happiness.So, how would YOU handle it if it turned out that YOUR next-door neighbor offered to sell YOUR 12-year- son some Meth, or if your little 6-year-old daughter tells you that Mr. With psychopathy, the damage can be so deep and the behavior so destructive towards others that the most effective measure for all concerned is to put strong borders.It seems important, however, to emphasize the difference between behavior and the manifesting, creative life which is inherent within each of us. Was Anakin really 'evil' or did he do it because he was 'good'?Nobody's arguing that good and evil aren't human concepts. The result of Good vs. The theme of good and evil is also shown in a portion of the New Testament of the Bible. Sorry pal, there will be no murder or child rape for me. A psychopath is born.