Would you rid the world of the corrupt / evil?

[Deleted]

This is too simple anyway. Simply killing all these people doesn't solve anything. It doesn't stop the cause. If this reasoning was true then the first person killed by death penalty would have stopped murder altogether.

Anyway killing people is fucking stupud, if you have a desire or want to kill anyone you are a fucking moron. (although subjectively it can be justified, ugghh, gtfo this thread)

[Granda]

Dungeons and Dragons pretty much answered this.
If Lawful Good totally stomps out Chaotic Evil, eventually Lawful Good becomes the evil.
I think it shouldn't be spelled out beyond that and be something people need to actually ruminate on.

I love DnD's system of morality. OT: If someone who views good and evil as a thing and then kills everyone they think is evil then eventually good becomes evil. Exactly, good of you for posting this. Hell we even see it in Warcraft with Arthas. He did everything that he stood against to stop the things he stood against, and became part of what he originally stood against.

[Raeph]

No.

Evil is present in every persons heart, for the proof of it simply consider your own motives in anything.

If you are willing to be silent while others are victimized then you are validating that activity, by your silence, just as if you were engaging in that act yourself or approving of those who participate in that activity. That is evil. Using that as a definition of evil we should, rather than remove all evil people, work for reform to protect the victims, raise up people who will not be silent when victimization happens, and to reform those that feel they have the right to create victims in their wake.

Killing evil people who act evil, to try to remove all the evil in the world, will not work because we each have the capacity that those people display.

[Deleted]

No,let the folk of future have some fun too.

[Frozenbeef]

No... if problems like genocidal dictators, robbers, rapists etc exist then there are greater problems/ evils within society at work that caused those things to happen in the first place..it would be pointless to remove the symptom and not the cause >.< Also I would see it as morally bad to kill the symptom ie. the murderer/ rapist/ thief

[Nihilist74]

I would kill the evil oppressors of the world only if i knew i could get away with it without imprisonment, injury or death. I would also only do it if i could take some of the evil oppressors belongings or riches for loots!

[ComputerNerd]

The issue with setting some arbitrary standards by which others are good or bad, and below us or not is exactly what those people did themselves.
Are we not really doing much of the same by that ?

[Deleted]

I probably would, but I'm not tied down by family or friends.

[Deleted]

Evil is subjective.

Let's say I enjoy playing football (which I don't, fuck sports) why would I want to stop playing football? It's pretty much the same for psychopaths (that would be my guess, I don't really know if I've ever met one) if you enjoy killing people, why would you stop doing it? This applies to pretty much eveything, rapists, pedophiles, etc.

Besides, I don't see (even if I had the training and stuff) how this is my problem. As long as my family is not affected by the bullshit I couldn't care less.

[Mister K]

Yes, no doubt.

Only to very few crimes. Usually any mass-murder, severe extortion, genocide, rape.

Everyone would have 2 chances.

[Deleted]

Not my problem, let someone else handle it.

[Deleted]

I say no, but not the one on the OP since that isn't my take on it even though I say "no". Then again, that is impossible so I don't care much.

[Jaymega]

No. Because Evil is not black and white. It is a general opinion based on what the majority feels is acceptable at the time. Nothing more, nothing less.

I can go out and murder someone that literally goes out and rapes and eats children, and then someday be deemed evil myself for choosing to do so. Remember all those people who believe killing is wrong no matter the situation? They don't even approve of self defense, let alone seeking out the corrupt and killing them. The last thing I need in life is to risk my life and waste my time rooting out what I deem to be evil just to have everyone turn on me and call me evil.

It's a complex issue. Right and wrong and good and evil are not things that one person can decide. It is constantly transforming.

But if I do, i would make sure to exercise my power to "educate' the entire world of how good I am and that my way is correct. That would endure that everyone agrees with me since it will be taught in school from day 1. But tell me, does that sound righteous to you?

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A true stain on humanity, an evil with the means/power to blight a nation or nations? Men like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Idi Amin, Pol Pot? Yes, they would die. Lesser degrees of same? Hard to say.

Hitler is only evil because he lost the war.

[apepi]

It is hurricane Katrina not Kathrina...

[chazus]

I feel there is an inherent need for evil. While I do not condone, encourage, or like it.. It is necessary.

Evil. The rapists, the murderers, the people who text in theaters, they give us a gauge for morality and boundaries. They save us from stagnation of society, and utter mundaneness. If there was no evil in the world, I'm pretty sure we'd die out as a species from lack of desire from improving. Most progress is created from a problem. No problems, no progress. Morally. Intellectually. Culturally.

That, or we would simply, slowly cease to recognize evil, simply have it without being aware of it.

[Mormolyce]

It's because the only people with the real desire to kill people are psychopaths and other monsters. Some of them do convince themselves they're on a crusade for the good of the world and/or the innocent people they kill are evil and deserve it though.

The desire to murder and good moral judgement don't exactly go hand in hand.

[Dellis0991]

So your talking about wiping out all of humanity because evil is a trait of humanity same as good. It's in the very being of what we are, you can wipe that out because to wipe that out you got to kill everyone!

[Mormolyce]

I feel there is an inherent need for evil. While I do not condone, encourage, or like it.. It is necessary.

Evil. The rapists, the murderers, the people who text in theaters, they give us a gauge for morality and boundaries. They save us from stagnation of society, and utter mundaneness. If there was no evil in the world, I'm pretty sure we'd die out as a species from lack of desire from improving. Most progress is created from a problem. No problems, no progress. Morally. Intellectually. Culturally.

That, or we would simply, slowly cease to recognize evil, simply have it without being aware of it.

Like how we invented computers because a serial killer murdered Charles Babbage's parents?

[Tastyfish]

If you are willing to be silent while others are victimized then you are validating that activity, by your silence, just as if you were engaging in that act yourself or approving of those who participate in that activity.

Well there is a dividing point here that needs to be pointed out.
Fear and Apathy.
Not giving a fuck is much more damning, then being too scared to act.

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I feel there is an inherent need for evil. While I do not condone, encourage, or like it.. It is necessary.

Clearly there is, esp cause the concept of good does not exist without a balance to it.

[apepi]

I feel there is an inherent need for evil. While I do not condone, encourage, or like it.. It is necessary.

Evil. The rapists, the murderers, the people who text in theaters, they give us a gauge for morality and boundaries. They save us from stagnation of society, and utter mundaneness. If there was no evil in the world, I'm pretty sure we'd die out as a species from lack of desire from improving. Most progress is created from a problem. No problems, no progress. Morally. Intellectually. Culturally.

That, or we would simply, slowly cease to recognize evil, simply have it without being aware of it.

We would not still have problems? Um, I could pick many....Getting rid of the shit people would not fix everything, it is not that easy.