Originally posted by: JediSage
So, is it your assertion that the holocaust can't be judged to be "evil" because one opinion is as valid as the other? Is it a matter of opinion that the two kids who killed all those people at Columbine were'nt evil because evil is only an idea? Is it your assertion that slavery in the United States was neither good nor evil because those ideas don't exist? Using this logic I can walk into your house and steal your tv with impunity, because hey, good and evil are only opinions.
Relativism. What a way to be. It's proponents espouse it as the ultimate system of belief while condeming those who don't go along with it...more like the ultimate in hypocrisy. There are absolutely no absolutes...
Originally posted by: Devilman-1369
evil is just a matter of opinion (as is 'good'), so a world with NO evil is just as impossible as a world with NO good.
it's all a matter of opinion
besides, 'good' & 'evil' have nothing to do with 'violence' or 'non-violence'
the 'evil' ones aren't always the ones to instigate violence...think of the Crusades, The Salem Witch Hunt, WWII (hey, the nazis thought they were the good guys...and if they had won that war, history would remember them as heros)
evil is just a matter of opinion (as is 'good'), so a world with NO evil is just as impossible as a world with NO good.
it's all a matter of opinion
besides, 'good' & 'evil' have nothing to do with 'violence' or 'non-violence'
the 'evil' ones aren't always the ones to instigate violence...think of the Crusades, The Salem Witch Hunt, WWII (hey, the nazis thought they were the good guys...and if they had won that war, history would remember them as heros)
So, is it your assertion that the holocaust can't be judged to be "evil" because one opinion is as valid as the other? Is it a matter of opinion that the two kids who killed all those people at Columbine were'nt evil because evil is only an idea? Is it your assertion that slavery in the United States was neither good nor evil because those ideas don't exist? Using this logic I can walk into your house and steal your tv with impunity, because hey, good and evil are only opinions.
Relativism. What a way to be. It's proponents espouse it as the ultimate system of belief while condeming those who don't go along with it...more like the ultimate in hypocrisy. There are absolutely no absolutes...
I didn't read all of this and didn't realize what I had said was already touched upon. Good point, and well lol, you can tell I agree.