What IS evil? Evil is the enemy right? well maybe thats the point we need to consider, evil being the enemy. And whats an enemy but the antagonist to the protagonists perspective. Someone who disagree's? or lives differently? doesn't get along with you? the other side.
the truth of the matter in my opinion, is that everyone has there own perspective, there is NO protagonist but oneself, and that meens everyone right? everyone being the main character to their story, and whoever opposes them or does things they don't agree with or understand is evil right?
i think its rediculous, and i think its a word for excuse, its a word used when people refuse to understand the enemies reasons. When they refuse to be optomistic
killing people for example, we think of a murderer and evil springs to mind right? but do we think why? why that person murdered so and such, or why they like to kill people? we say, "because they're evil" and there is no logic in evil. the whole thing about evil, if it existed, is that its supposed to meen someone who does horrible things for no more reason the pure pleasure, and they have no excuse, or justification, nothing. They do it demonically, as a lifeform from hell.
thats not how it works, everyone and everything has a reason and if we saw there side, it would make sense. Its all about perspective. Killing people isn't evil in my opinion, people always have a reason to kill, wether its a justifiable reason or not, its a reason. For those who kill for the sake of killing, hating man kind, well theres your reason, they hate people, or most of them. It makes sense don't it? we are after all one of the most foul creatures on earth, who wouldn't want to kill us? think about those who have seen so much horrible things from man kinda, and they retaliate, and do it back, hating man kinda for what its done to them. hating and killing for it, killing people because to them, no one deserves to live, ignorant man kind is undeserving.
Think of that perspective, makes a little more sense? we exterminate bugs all the time, because they pester us. bugs are living to right? but its ok, because they're small. they're anoying. people are small and anoying, if you compare us to the universe, we're just an infestation plaguing the planet with our ignorant, selfish ways. Taking up more resources then we need from dear earth, greedily. makes it seem ok to kill us, step on us, squish us like we do with insects. Makes it almost nessisary. Makes killing nessisary.
thats a whole different perspective, and it makes alot more sense then "evil".
Now lets go back into history for a moment, what was evil back then?
jews: mere people, just like us, with a stereotype, and they were called evil, and people threw in words to demean them, (hitler for the most part) throwing in words like "evil" and rediculous things because he never really had a meaningful point. and evil is such a feared word, that so many don't bother questioning... its the ultimate excuse to exterminate the jews! but there was never any REAL meening to it was there?
Science: haressy, a word that religious people accuse those who want scientific fact, and are willing to research things that suggest certain religious beleifs wrong. They think its evil, to accuse religion of being wrong, that its evil to seek the truth, something logical, an answer that meens osmething, a fact. Like human evolution, some religions beleive that god made man in his form, and so its evil to beleive otherwise, that we evolved from apes. Its evil because it opposes their beleifs, it touches an area that they don't want to understand. An area they can't prove wrong, religion can't prove anything really, so they throw words like evil and those beleifs and people promoting them because the word evil is all the have. A word, and an excuse to be ignorant.
Propaganda: in times of war, among other times propaganda is used to promote fighting and influencing society to act in the ways authorities want them to. And it is also used to demote the enemy countries. Often there really is no excuse for war, or hardly any, world war 1 was meaningless, and authorities in lots of the countries that took part in it didn't have anything on the enemy country that they could truly use to encourage their people to fight them, so they made things up, they said things like "russians eat babies" or whatever, and mostly they said "they're evil" and "they're a threat, therefore they're evil" thats all the had, and they used that to beckon conflict on their behalf. once again, a word used to influence people because its the only word they had, an excuse.
i don't beleive in evil, and when people say to me "i've felt it" i beleive they were just afraid, scare, felt threatened by something, and they compared that feeling to "feeling evil". But its just an instictive feeling, and internal warning that we're in danger, not feeling evil.
Evil is just a human invention that highlights common human ignorance.