Does evil exist outside fairy tales?

Question

Does evil exist outside fairy tales?

Answer 1

Yes.

n**i Germany and Robert Mugabe are good examples.

Pimps are good examples on an individual level.

Answer 2

It does, but only as it relates to behavior harmful to humanity.

Evil isn't a magical force that the debel forces on people, or that God is trying to lead us away from.

Evil is behavior that is harmful to a majority of humanity.  Every person is capable of great good and great evil, and most of us participate in both.

What counts is the majority of decisions we make.

Answer 3

Essentially, yes.

Answer 4

can you honestly watch the news and see all the killings and child molesting and school shootings and such and wonder if evil exist outside fairy tales?

Answer 5

Which one?

God love you!

Answer 6

Go to the internet and watch a Muslim terrorist behead someone.  Then come back and rethink the question.

Answer 7

What is evil? Its a subjective term. People have their own beliefs as to whats evil and whats not.

Answer 8

Evil is a catch-all term for what happens when the ignorance or stupidity of man causes harm to another human being.

The idea of evil as a force is pure silliness.

Answer 9

Ask those who suffered under Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot.

Answer 10

As anything more than an abstract concept, no.

EDIT: Blessed Cheesemaker put it better than me.

Answer 11

Of course.  Look at Osama bin Laden, Fred Phelps, the KKK, Ted Bundy, etc.  You even have to ask?

Answer 12

Of course it does.  

Answer 13

In one sense evil is temporary and has no reality.

Yet we must become aware of it to replace it with love.

Answer 14

hmm let me see

Hitler

Stalin

Ted Bundy...

etc

Yes obviously

Answer 15

Yes - Hitler, bin Laden, GW Bush

Answer 16

Yes, I don't consider the documented atrocities of serial killers to be a fairy tail.

Answer 17

I'm standing -right here.- Don't talk about me like I'm not here. It's rude.

In seriousness, evil is necessary, in some instances.  

Answer 18

i'm drinking baby blood from a puppies skull