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Originally Posted by ReptileInYourHead
Lee, “evil in the sense of being in conflict with nature -- survival instinct violated”.
Survival instinct violated is not in conflict with nature, in fact nature is based on violations.
In nature there are no “rights”, like the right to survive.
Some animals eat their own children, but it does not make them evil, because to a certain degree they are pre-programmed machines albeit organic ones.
Human conceptions are not the same as the animal worlds as far as evil acts and punishment.
My point is that ‘evil’ is not a natural concept, it seems more likely to be a man made judgement.
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Your point seems to change as you go along.
You were content to repetitively argue "why do people have different ideas" until I pointed out people are not pre-programmed machines - a phrase you just quoted as pertaining to animals, which again is wrong. If they were pre-programmed they would not raise other animal's young, nor would there be cases of animals rescuing or even raising humans - there also would not be any animals who grieve themselves to death when their owners die or leave them. No, animals are unique as well - just not as well recognized as being so.