Ok, what I did was to look up a word in the dictionary and give the definition to this word.

Now, this word has been used to describe ficticous charectors. We have the evil witch, and the evil aliens or whatever stories that revolve around a type of mythical imaginary evil verses good. We still have that theme in movies, television series, novels and so on today. And this is what I think that is being deemed as something that does not exist, no there never was an evil witch in the wizard of oz, it was just a story among many stories, sleeping beauty, snow white and so on and so forth.

We are entertained by the good guy that ultimately gets the bad or evil guy. So in that respect at some point when we grow up, hopefully, we start to say, "You know what? That evil witch doesn't exist in real life." And those stories and not about religions, they are about good verses evil and we like to think that perhaps the bad things or people that do exist in reality can be destroyed and perhaps we could live in peace.

But we also have to be careful because crimes are commited every minute, maybe every second and we have different legal systems that address these various crimes and there is a process where the person who commited the crime understands good from bad behavior.

I didn't put up a word with a definition to say, oh, yes there was an evil witch in OZ. But the debate is about that in some way.

The truth is that throughout history there have been many different rulers that one could say commited evil acts, just by the definition of the word. But, because there is so many ficticious charectors that have been described as evil ones, we debate it.
Now pachyderm your post is saying just that, you are thinking about fictional charectors and oh no, that may mean we are powerless. Just by uttering the words striking back, there again opens a book to some type of fictional event in a fiction hero book. And again you use the word reality as in your mind those fictional stories are not real. Ofcourse someone being called evil by another may be considered impotence, if you are thinking about fictional charectors.

Lets just think about what is going on in some other countries where children are watching programs using American disney like charectors as bad guys and how they can be rewarded by blowing themselves up. If I say this is teaching how to commit evil acts am I then showing impotence? I am not showing them a wicked witch, no they are being shown a charector that looks like mickey mouse as being the bad guy.

Ok, lets throw in psychology here, do you want to do that? What mental illness do you call that? Alright you don't want to use the word evil, ok, it just doesn't exist now does it? Lets just pick another word out of the almost two thousand pages of words within a dictionary all these words with different meanings. Well if we just cant accept one word, take your pick and and get out the other books that take words and give other words that mean the same thing, lets just put some bit of intellectual dressing on it.

And what about the children that are taken away from families to be used as human weapons attached to bombs. Oh there must be some word for that, oh, we cant just use insanity for that occurance. Oh yes some kind of psychosis breading more psychosis? No, there is no evil in that either, oh, that would be someone laughing at my impotence.

Oh we have to be careful about semantics, yes could be applied to some biblical term. Oh, goodness, we couldn't do that. Maybe we should just pretend that evil is only in some kind of fairy tale that doesn't exist either. I don't even think the Grim's brothers could beat that.

Oh, right we wouldn't want to agree with Bush calling these people evil doers, no that would be agreeing with a person who represented a political party, oh, he was
impotent, oh, he was ignorant or stupid or whatever.

Ok, understanding how poeple get thay way is much more effective in correcting situations. Well I did try to address that on different occasions especially as I see children again being abused by teaching them to hate an American mouse. I have talked about children many many times here and explained where some of this behavior comes from. Ok, we can't use morality either, another bad word, someone has to be in charge of that, can't just look it up in the dictionary.

Yes, it does have an internal psychological effect on me, and no, that doesn't solve the problem, I just cant always sleep at night, my problem not yours I guess.

At least I still have the option of saying that word "evil" even if it costs me to be deemed as intellectually impotent.

I suppose we could just say that these are atrosities and can be inconcievable. But that still doesn't address how people get that way. Oh its that Trillion dollar question isnt it? Oh maybe that is a mere pittance of valuing that question or a possible answer.

I don't really use the word evil very much. But it is the topic here and I did look it up. In my own unfortunate situation I have used the words negligent, disrespectful, trespassing, lieing and even liability. Hard for me because I did try to relate the value of what I had and I even tried to educate and display my concerns many times over years and in the end it served no purpose, it was actually pretty futile. I don't even know what you would call the negligence in psychological terms all I know is this condition called PTSD.
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