K, gonna go stand in Lidl by the peanut butter and remind everyone going through that they are inexcusably evil. Also anywhere that sells electronics, clothes, animal products, diamonds...
Being part of modern human society in general is being evil, really. There are just different degrees of evilness.
This is true, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to minimise your evil deeds, nor is being a good person impossible. It just takes more hard work to be a good person, but that's how it's always been.
K, gonna go stand in Lidl by the peanut butter and remind everyone going through that they are inexcusably evil. Also anywhere that sells electronics, clothes, animal products, diamonds...
Being part of modern human society in general is being evil, really. There are just different degrees of evilness.
Yeah, but when picking up a bar of chocolate because you want something sweet makes you "inexcusably evil," you start to lose a certain sense of scaling. If that's also inexcusably evil, how much worse is something that most people would typically qualify as being inexcusably evil?
you could just be a zebra-seeing nerd and say that all evil is inexcusable
that's a thing
Inexcusable evil can be both minor and major. Inexcusable evil doesn't mean unforgivable evil, it just means the specific evil committed can't be justified.
Just as an example (please keep in mind that this example doesn't necessarily reflect my views), 9/11 was an inexcusable act of evil on bin Laden's part. There was no justification for doing it.
Now let's say that there would've been another 9/11, it would've been a hundred times worse, and it was completely unrelated to bin Laden's work. If bin Laden were to stop this new attack out of the goodness of his own heart and sacrifices much to do so, then he could be forgiven for his involvement in the original 9/11.
His original crime is still inexcusable and he shouldn't have done it, but it can still be forgiven.
Not all evil is inexcusable, however. There are two situation that come to mind that excuse evil: greater good and ignorance.
Greater good is simple. Kill one innocent person to save a hundred innocent people. You're committing an evil by killing the one person, but you're committing a great good by saving a hundred. Committing the evil was necessary to performing the greater good and so it can be excused. (Just an example. Does not necessarily reflect my views.)
Ignorance is different. If you shoot dead an innocent man because you think he's pulling a gun on you, you've committed an evil because you shot dead an innocent man. It's entirely forgiveable and excusable, however, because you just had no way of knowing that you were committing evil. This only applies when it's
impossible to know if you're committing an evil act. Buying peanut butter from a company that cuts down rainforest is evil, but the evil can be excusable if it had a sticker on it saying it was rainforest-friendly.
It's not excusable if it had no such sticker and you're ignorant only because you failed to do research. If it didn't work this way, terrorists could not be considered evil as they thought they were doing good, despite being
able to know that what they were doing was evil.
This is a bit more nuanced because of the multiple different factors (if it had no sticker, it was still environmentally-friendly, but then it stopped being without your knowledge, it's fine), but this is the basic idea.
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