>In philosophy >Professor asks me about the concept of evil >Put on the spot, start panicking but remember a certain quote from Witcher 3 >"Evil is Evil. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference. The degreee is arbitary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one evil and another… I’d rather not choose at all" >Professor looks stunned, class gives me a round of applause
Anyone else had video games help them in real life?
also when I was in 8th grade we had an art project for Halloween to make our own monster, and I just drew a Slig from Oddworld and everyone praised me for being so original and creative
At least you're not a disgusting fucking utilitarian
Lincoln Moore
>In philosophy >Professor asks me about the concept of evil >Put on the spot, start panicking >ITS A SPOOK >everyone treats me like an moral relativist idiot for the rest of the semester
Justin Harris
Heh, that genuinely got me. Thanks user.
Bentley Brooks
Kek.
Jacob Rivera
Can people really be considered evil if they just act in accordance with their genetic predisposition? Does free will exist?
Luke Barnes
Best scene of the movie.
Jayden White
My genetic predisposition is to treat people as if free will does exist.
Kevin Powell
>Can people really be considered evil if they just act in accordance with their genetic predisposition?
Yes, evil people are clearly genetically predisposed to being evil but that doesn't make them less evil.
>Does free will exist?
No, but free will is not required to do evil or to abstain from doing evil.
Henry Watson
This is definitely the easy approach, and arguably the only approach that leads to humane outcomes.
Cooper Hernandez
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Asher Peterson
>free will does exist. Of the little that I know, one needs to think of limited will and not 'unfree' will. There's an element of choice but it is limited by all sorts of stuff.
Julian Adams
The word you're looking for is Compatibilism
Xavier Fisher
>The word you're looking for is Compatibilism I've heard of that term before but it was lost in time.
Noah Cooper
Read the spooky brain jew's book about free will, he btfo's compatibalism
Cameron Price
>things that never happened
Kevin Brown
> spooky brain jew's Which one of them?
Caleb Brooks
and that user's name...
...was Albert Einstein
Tyler Gonzalez
What a dumb answer.
There's always a degree of evil. If you had to choose between big evil and small evil, a rational would naturally choose the small. Not choosing simply forces the natural state of big evil overwhelming small evil or both taking place.