Well, the thread is about No evil. I used the dictionary to give the definition of the word evil and evil as a noun, descriptor, or evil as and adjective but elliemay kind of convolutes that a little by saying driving behavior. To me that would entertain the explanation of the psycholocial motivation of the adjective of the word described in the dictionary.

The reason why the thread has become confusing is because of everything I explained in my last post. What I considered is what was stated by the person who wrote the article that questioned the existance of evil. The reason why it becomes confusing is because of how we think of the word evil wether it be used as an adjective or a noun. The word evil has inadvertantly been given other meanings and one can think of evil as I mentioned, the Devil or one can think of evil as a wicked witch in a fairy tale. But it is a word that has a meaning and it does exist by the very definition of the word. It is not a religous statement, not a fictional charector, it is a condition or a person or leader that creats the condition.

You use the other words, bad, abhorrent, horrific and they are other adjectives but they do not say the same thing as the adjective or noun evil. These other words you use are more of an emotion, disgusting loathsome, or repellant and horrific causing horror and terrifying. And within the definition of these words there is no mention of the word evil.

If we see a horrific car accident than that is not evil. A food can taste disgusting or even loathsome, but evil has no real taste. A person can be disgusting or loathsome by the way he or she looks or even smells, but that is not the definition of evil either.

We think of evil as non existing and yet if we really see the true definition of evil, than we can see how we misuse it, or misunderstand it and that it does describe different human conditions that have occurred thoughout history. Wether or not the origin is caused by an individual that is acting on a psycholocial disfunciton or not, it is not about that.

The only reason one has to assume when people say that evil does not exit is that they are not really understanding the word itself. So, we can get many different responses in this thread by what that word means to different people, not the actual meaning.

Look, I had to think about that myself, so I did look it up and I wanted to be clear about what the WORD meant. And in my last post I did talk about the confusion over the MEANING OF THE WORD.

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