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Old Jun 16, 2011, 02:55 PM
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I am not sure that "we" know that. I read lots of claims, but I have big reservations about what "we know".
I do know that research has been done and for the life of me I cannot remember the specific name for that part of the brain located near the base that carries the sense of empathy and remose for others. This is shown and described as a small pea in shape and it has been found that in people who have no remorse or feelings of empathy this is very under developed, however they are extremely intelligent.

I believe the special was either on the discovery channel or the history channel and they did show scans of the brain and the different sections and showed how the brains of these people do have a very small underdeveloped area where that sense of guilt, remose and empathy originates in the brain.

These people are extremely narcissistic and only show any remorse for their own preservation. And some of these people did not have abuse in their childhood. But it has been noted that the process of experimentation and feelings of a desire for harming others can start in childhood. It often starts by killing animals and grows from there. But there is a fantacy and drive to kill other humans.

Not trying to pick but if we are not sure about what we do not know, or what we do know, than how can we know or not that evil does not exist?

If we examine history and even consider the way people watched the suffering and torture of other human beings for entertainment, well, to be honest it blows my mind.

No we can use a lot of new interesting long words but not Evil as it is described in the dictionary because it may have some biblical meaning or we cannot use wicked either because that is evil by nature and in practice, or we could just remove that from the first definition of wicked.

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