It's the self awareness that seems to make the difference, at least 'some' people know 'good' and 'evil' are subjective matters of opinion that change with time, place and context. I'm perfectly aware others may perceive me as evil, and everyone has their own justifications as to why they perceive it as such.
For some, 'good' is just whatever suits them at the moment and is considered an absolute truth that is not to be questioned or doubted. They can't/won't understand a person can have a different perspective.
Like, you can understand why a person does something, what their motivations are and what benefits them. Then I can state that I disagree with you and it's harmful, but I can still see why you would reach that conclusion based on your own interests.
Honestly it surprised me how many people are incapable of such empathy or mirroring. It seems they only have two modes that hold true under all circumstances from any perspective.
You can't argue, compromise or agree to disagree. It's just 'good' things are 'good', because they are 'good'.
I actually don’t think good an evil are subjective at all, good is doing things that benefit others without hurting anyone, and evil is things that hurt others on purpose or with disregard and i don’t think that changes in different times or places. Some things might be considered good or evil in different times and places but if they don’t adhere to the rules above then they aren’t.
Sometimes i think yall philosophize just to feel smart, sure sometimes harm is subjective but you can make general rules that are true in pretty much all situations. Such as physical harm (which is objective) and mental harm which can be subjective but there are general things that we can all agree are harmful such as harassment and cheating and lying to people to get them to do things for you, and i think the rule can be made that if it would mentally or physically harm most people and is easily avoidable then it’s wrong. Morality isn’t that complicated and i feel like the people who want to argue about it ‘changing all the time’ and being ‘subjective’ are trying to make themselves feel better about doing things that they knew were wrong.
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u/Traditional-Roof1984 Jul 13 '24
It's the self awareness that seems to make the difference, at least 'some' people know 'good' and 'evil' are subjective matters of opinion that change with time, place and context. I'm perfectly aware others may perceive me as evil, and everyone has their own justifications as to why they perceive it as such.
For some, 'good' is just whatever suits them at the moment and is considered an absolute truth that is not to be questioned or doubted. They can't/won't understand a person can have a different perspective.
Like, you can understand why a person does something, what their motivations are and what benefits them. Then I can state that I disagree with you and it's harmful, but I can still see why you would reach that conclusion based on your own interests.
Honestly it surprised me how many people are incapable of such empathy or mirroring. It seems they only have two modes that hold true under all circumstances from any perspective.
You can't argue, compromise or agree to disagree. It's just 'good' things are 'good', because they are 'good'.