In the simplest terms you can think of, what is evil to you? Not who, WHAT.
Doing harm
Reaching for your goals at the expense of others.
>>276999 Gotta harm to heal. See: surgery.
>>276999>>277001I'd have to say willfully, deliberately, and cruelly inflicting undue pain and suffering on other living beings. I'm talking physical, mental, emotional, or sexual abuse. Torture, rape, those sorts of things. And while mental/emotional abuse may be harder to prove or define, that definitely counts as evil in my mind. I've seen others suffer because of it. Those are the things I'd call "evil". All other forms of human behavior I'd sort into varying degrees of "good" or "bad".
Harm in the intent to cause only harm.
>>277002Yeah, but Spreeses wants the simplest terms possible. I think >>277003's got it right.
Not good.
Smart.
sexy
Evil doesn't exist, and neither does good. They are concepts relative to everyone.But since you said "to me"? ...Twinkies.
Evil in common speech is an oversimplification of too many things. Other people in this thread are right on the mark.
>>277009The ONLY proper response.
An act that harms another at the physical benefit of nobody involved.
I know it when I see it.
>>277007>Smart>>277009>SexyThrow in Powerful, and WWE Divas are evil.Makes sense, really.
Treating people like they're things.
>>277027Sometimes that's fine if you have a safety word.
>>277029
Mundaneness.
The abuse of women.
Evil is... when you commit an act you know is wrongful, either by your own morals or others'. Yeah.
The embrace of the self and self-reward, in rejection of both the whole and the consequences of self-focused actions.Also, have an EXCELLENT book on the topic:http://www.amazon.com/Evil-Primer-History-Beelzebub-Laden/dp/0312312814A very well-balanced and self-aware book on the topic, which you'd expect from a good ex-journalist/editor who used to focus on stories about criminal justice and mental health.