If the world is an evil place...?

Question

am I fundamentally evil because I am able to adapt to it?

Answer 1

It all depends on your opinions of what is good or evil

Answer 2

Your are what you are.

and consequently you are also what you are not.

Since you are both ...the determination you seek is but a mirage.

Answer 3

If there is RIGHT then there is WRONG, Good and Bad, Error and evil.

Undiluted evil, complete error, willful sin, and unmitigated iniquity are inherently and automatically suicidal. The only evolutionary world without error (the possibility of unwise judgment) would be a world without free intelligence. The possibility of mistaken judgment (evil) becomes sin only when the human will consciously endorses and knowingly embraces a deliberate immoral judgment.

In attempting personal perfection we are diminishing the content of the evil, error, and disharmony of relative reality.  The good effort of each man benefits all men; the error or evil of each man augments the tribulation of all men.

Likewise is any ascendant creature who effectively prevents such upheavals of error, evil, or sin; for action designed to prevent rebellion or to effect higher types of loyalty in a universe crisis is regarded as of even greater value than loyalty in the face of actual rebellion.

Answer 4

Yes.  And yes.  I assume by your namesake you want us to think so.  So yes on both accounts, you evil anti-hero, out there, doing your own thing, to h**l with everybody else and their "morals" and "conscience", they only get in the way of what you want and you'll stop at nothing to get it, but underneath that cold, calloused exterior is a sweet, loving "darling" that wants to be accepted and loved like a sweet, little girl.

Your entire existence is a contradiction.

Answer 5

Evil is as evil does. As long as your actions aren't evil and you're adapting to coping with with the evil around you, you're okay.  

Answer 6

The world includes you.  Except, of course, for the one who says that.

But what is usually meant is that you and others are trying to cope in a world that has much "evil" in it.

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

...its an evil place doesn't necessarily makes individuals evil too...

...evil permeates from within the individual and if associated with an outside influence...

...EUREKA...YOU'LL FIT RIGHT IN...thanks for asking...

Answer 9

I don't know what the world is. the only thing I can think you mean, is OTHER PEOPLE. what else do you mean by the world? so do I think other people are evil? I dont know. I hear on the news this man killing someone, this lady drowning her children. sounds like there are allot of people who are mad and twisted. but since it is the 'other' you call it the world. this 'other' is human like you and me. He at least belongs to the human race. He eats like us, works like us, has a body like us. So who is this other? I don't know

Answer 10

What criteria did you use to divine world as an evil place? While at the same time it is each individual that has a choice of doing right or wrong.

The evil in itself is subjective, and your answers will also depend on your own definition. Lets use immoral, that you carryout or do things that in one way or the other will be considered evil.

Even then no you are not evil b/c the world around you is evil. You still have a choice and it you that choses right or wrong. If there is fire burning, you know if I put my hand in it, it will burn my hand. Now it is your choice put your hand in it or not.

In the same way we use fire to cook, or you can use fire to burn somebody, which will be considered and evil act. So it is still you that made the decision.

World is not evil. It is our own misdeeds that stain this world. If you don't have any rubbish there is no need to dump it. So if there would be no evil there would be no negative consequences and hence evil place.

The one argument used is world must have a good and evil to keep a balance. Yet good is balance, by doing wrong you ARE actually changing that balance, and once the balance is disturbed there are consequences.

So you don't adapt but chose the path you seek. Of course there can be circumstances where simply you have no choice, nonetheless it is still your choice. A choice makes something good or bad.

World is not evil it is simply reflection of our own misdeeds.

As you sow so shall you reap!

"The world is not a dangerous place, because of the evil in it, but because of good people who do nothing about it"

~ Albert Einstein

When good does evil in its struggle against evil, it becomes indistinguishable from its enemy.

~ (T.S. Elliot)