An Evil Index

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Originally Posted by zippyt

"Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream."

If I or any of us ( as enlightened or intelectual as we think we are ) acted on all our impulses , most all of us would be in jail or dead.

That is a point I made previously. Emotion is a powerful tool. A useful tool when the logical mind remains in control. Those who let their emotions, rather than logic, make decisions are either still children, or indeed dangerous (what we politely call anti-social).

Previously cited specific instances where I won competitions by channeling and empowering my emotions to defeat others who were better athletes. Again, emotions are an essential and powerful tool. But emotions cannot be permitted to be justification for a decision. Nor can emotion - what creates that 'evil' - be permitted to make those decisions.

Where in the evil index do they make such distinctions? Or does such 'evil' instead arise instead from logical thought - not from emotions? In which case, your example of an emotional impulse would not apply as an example of evil.