Why is There So Much Evil in The World Today?

[longknife]

So much anger. So much hatred. So much difficulty in finding the good in others.



One cannot take in the news without being faced with another act of evil. Murder. Rape. Assault. In ones neighborhood and throughout the world.



I thought to check out just what Evil, Morality, and Ethics are before discussing further.



EVIL



ADJECTIVE

1. profoundly immoral and malevolent:
   
   "his evil deeds" ·
   

1. 
   synonyms: wicked · bad · wrong · immoral · sinful · foul · vile · dishonorable · corrupt · iniquitous · depraved · reprobate · villainous · nefarious · vicious · malicious · malevolent · sinister · demonic · devilish · diabolical · fiendish · dark · monstrous · shocking · despicable · atrocious · heinous · odious · contemptible · horrible · execrable · lowdown · dirty
   

NOUN

1. profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force:
   
   "the world is stalked by relentless evil" · "good and evil in eternal opposition"
   
   synonyms: wickedness · bad · badness · wrongdoing · sin · ill · immorality · vice · iniquity · degeneracy · corruption · depravity · villainy · nefariousness · malevolence · devil · turpitude
   

MORALITY



NOUN

1. principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.
   
   synonyms: ethics · rights and wrongs · ethicality · virtue · goodness · good behavior · righteousness · rectitude · uprightness · morals · principles · honesty · integrity · propriety · honor · justice · decency · ethics · standards/principles of behavior · mores · standards
   
   • a particular system of values and principles of conduct, especially one held by a specified person or society:
     
     "a bourgeois morality"
     
     
   • the extent to which an action is right or wrong:
     
     "behind all the arguments lies the issue of the morality of the possession of nuclear weapons"
     

ETHICS



NOUN

1. moral principles that govern a person's or group's behavior:
   
   "Judeo-Christian ethics"
   
   synonyms: moral code · morals · morality · values · rights and wrongs · principles · ideals · standards (of behavior) · value system · virtues · dictates of conscience
   
   
2. the branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles. ADJECTIVE
   
   
3. profoundly immoral and malevolent:
   
   "his evil deeds" ·
   

1. 
   synonyms: wicked · bad · wrong · immoral · sinful · foul · vile · dishonorable · corrupt · iniquitous · depraved · reprobate · villainous · nefarious · vicious · malicious · malevolent · sinister · demonic · devilish · diabolical · fiendish · dark · monstrous · shocking · despicable · atrocious · heinous · odious · contemptible · horrible · execrable · lowdown · dirty
   
   NOUN
   
2. profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force:
   
   "the world is stalked by relentless evil" · "good and evil in eternal opposition"
   
   synonyms: wickedness · bad · badness · wrongdoing · sin · ill · immorality · vice · iniquity · degeneracy · corruption · depravity · villainy · nefariousness · malevolence · devil · turpitude
   

Words. All trying to explain what we are seeing and experiencing. Many try to explain it by claiming it’s due to mental instability – a nice word for insanity. But, what is the foundation for it?



This is just my personal opinion. We are seeing today the result of parenting – or the lack thereof. We learn and become who we are as we see our parents doing. No matter where we are in the world or the society in which we are raised, our view of the world comes from what we saw our parents and their adult associated showed us.



Are you short of temper? Perhaps one or both of your adult mentors was.



Are you racist or bigoted? Again, did you learn it from your parents?



And there is one other factor – just the fact that we find ourselves surrounded more often by evil. It fills the air and assaults our senses.



What can we do about it? Is it even possible to reduce its presence? And, what, if anything, can we do to protect ourselves from it?



So many questions and I have so few answers.



Anyone?

 

[tinydancer]

Well evil has always existed.

But for today in the here and now, I'm running with Revelations for an explanation of these strange times.

 

[Two Thumbs]

So much anger. So much hatred. So much difficulty in finding the good in others.



One cannot take in the news without being faced with another act of evil. Murder. Rape. Assault. In ones neighborhood and throughout the world.



I thought to check out just what Evil, Morality, and Ethics are before discussing further.



EVIL



ADJECTIVE

1. profoundly immoral and malevolent:
   
   "his evil deeds" ·

1. 
   synonyms: wicked · bad · wrong · immoral · sinful · foul · vile · dishonorable · corrupt · iniquitous · depraved · reprobate · villainous · nefarious · vicious · malicious · malevolent · sinister · demonic · devilish · diabolical · fiendish · dark · monstrous · shocking · despicable · atrocious · heinous · odious · contemptible · horrible · execrable · lowdown · dirty

NOUN

1. profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force:
   
   "the world is stalked by relentless evil" · "good and evil in eternal opposition"
   
   synonyms: wickedness · bad · badness · wrongdoing · sin · ill · immorality · vice · iniquity · degeneracy · corruption · depravity · villainy · nefariousness · malevolence · devil · turpitude

MORALITY



NOUN

1. principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.
   
   synonyms: ethics · rights and wrongs · ethicality · virtue · goodness · good behavior · righteousness · rectitude · uprightness · morals · principles · honesty · integrity · propriety · honor · justice · decency · ethics · standards/principles of behavior · mores · standards
   • a particular system of values and principles of conduct, especially one held by a specified person or society:
     
     "a bourgeois morality"
     
     
   • the extent to which an action is right or wrong:
     
     "behind all the arguments lies the issue of the morality of the possession of nuclear weapons"

ETHICS



NOUN

1. moral principles that govern a person's or group's behavior:
   
   "Judeo-Christian ethics"
   
   synonyms: moral code · morals · morality · values · rights and wrongs · principles · ideals · standards (of behavior) · value system · virtues · dictates of conscience
   
   
2. the branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles. ADJECTIVE
   
   
3. profoundly immoral and malevolent:
   
   "his evil deeds" ·

1. 
   synonyms: wicked · bad · wrong · immoral · sinful · foul · vile · dishonorable · corrupt · iniquitous · depraved · reprobate · villainous · nefarious · vicious · malicious · malevolent · sinister · demonic · devilish · diabolical · fiendish · dark · monstrous · shocking · despicable · atrocious · heinous · odious · contemptible · horrible · execrable · lowdown · dirty
   
   NOUN
   
2. profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force:
   
   "the world is stalked by relentless evil" · "good and evil in eternal opposition"
   
   synonyms: wickedness · bad · badness · wrongdoing · sin · ill · immorality · vice · iniquity · degeneracy · corruption · depravity · villainy · nefariousness · malevolence · devil · turpitude

Words. All trying to explain what we are seeing and experiencing. Many try to explain it by claiming it’s due to mental instability – a nice word for insanity. But, what is the foundation for it?



This is just my personal opinion. We are seeing today the result of parenting – or the lack thereof. We learn and become who we are as we see our parents doing. No matter where we are in the world or the society in which we are raised, our view of the world comes from what we saw our parents and their adult associated showed us.



Are you short of temper? Perhaps one or both of your adult mentors was.



Are you racist or bigoted? Again, did you learn it from your parents?



And there is one other factor – just the fact that we find ourselves surrounded more often by evil. It fills the air and assaults our senses.



What can we do about it? Is it even possible to reduce its presence? And, what, if anything, can we do to protect ourselves from it?



So many questions and I have so few answers.



Anyone?

the world is any more violent now than it ever has been.

we just hear about it more often.

isolated incidences are made national, and the media feeds off bad new, the worse the better.

 

[BULLDOG]

Well evil has always existed.

But for today in the here and now, I'm running with Revelations for an explanation of these strange times.

Yep, I always say that if you are going to follow a made up book that has been edited lots of times, be sure to pick the craziest parts to depend on most.

 

[mudwhistle]

So much anger. So much hatred. So much difficulty in finding the good in others.



One cannot take in the news without being faced with another act of evil. Murder. Rape. Assault. In ones neighborhood and throughout the world.



I thought to check out just what Evil, Morality, and Ethics are before discussing further.



EVIL



ADJECTIVE

1. profoundly immoral and malevolent:
   
   "his evil deeds" ·

1. 
   synonyms: wicked · bad · wrong · immoral · sinful · foul · vile · dishonorable · corrupt · iniquitous · depraved · reprobate · villainous · nefarious · vicious · malicious · malevolent · sinister · demonic · devilish · diabolical · fiendish · dark · monstrous · shocking · despicable · atrocious · heinous · odious · contemptible · horrible · execrable · lowdown · dirty

NOUN

1. profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force:
   
   "the world is stalked by relentless evil" · "good and evil in eternal opposition"
   
   synonyms: wickedness · bad · badness · wrongdoing · sin · ill · immorality · vice · iniquity · degeneracy · corruption · depravity · villainy · nefariousness · malevolence · devil · turpitude

MORALITY



NOUN

1. principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.
   
   synonyms: ethics · rights and wrongs · ethicality · virtue · goodness · good behavior · righteousness · rectitude · uprightness · morals · principles · honesty · integrity · propriety · honor · justice · decency · ethics · standards/principles of behavior · mores · standards
   • a particular system of values and principles of conduct, especially one held by a specified person or society:
     
     "a bourgeois morality"
     
     
   • the extent to which an action is right or wrong:
     
     "behind all the arguments lies the issue of the morality of the possession of nuclear weapons"

ETHICS



NOUN

1. moral principles that govern a person's or group's behavior:
   
   "Judeo-Christian ethics"
   
   synonyms: moral code · morals · morality · values · rights and wrongs · principles · ideals · standards (of behavior) · value system · virtues · dictates of conscience
   
   
2. the branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles. ADJECTIVE
   
   
3. profoundly immoral and malevolent:
   
   "his evil deeds" ·

1. 
   synonyms: wicked · bad · wrong · immoral · sinful · foul · vile · dishonorable · corrupt · iniquitous · depraved · reprobate · villainous · nefarious · vicious · malicious · malevolent · sinister · demonic · devilish · diabolical · fiendish · dark · monstrous · shocking · despicable · atrocious · heinous · odious · contemptible · horrible · execrable · lowdown · dirty
   
   NOUN
   
2. profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force:
   
   "the world is stalked by relentless evil" · "good and evil in eternal opposition"
   
   synonyms: wickedness · bad · badness · wrongdoing · sin · ill · immorality · vice · iniquity · degeneracy · corruption · depravity · villainy · nefariousness · malevolence · devil · turpitude

Words. All trying to explain what we are seeing and experiencing. Many try to explain it by claiming it’s due to mental instability – a nice word for insanity. But, what is the foundation for it?



This is just my personal opinion. We are seeing today the result of parenting – or the lack thereof. We learn and become who we are as we see our parents doing. No matter where we are in the world or the society in which we are raised, our view of the world comes from what we saw our parents and their adult associated showed us.



Are you short of temper? Perhaps one or both of your adult mentors was.



Are you racist or bigoted? Again, did you learn it from your parents?



And there is one other factor – just the fact that we find ourselves surrounded more often by evil. It fills the air and assaults our senses.



What can we do about it? Is it even possible to reduce its presence? And, what, if anything, can we do to protect ourselves from it?



So many questions and I have so few answers.



Anyone?

For one thing......there's too many Democrats in the world

 

[mudwhistle]

Well evil has always existed.

But for today in the here and now, I'm running with Revelations for an explanation of these strange times.

Yep, I always say that if you are going to follow a made up book that has been edited lots of times, be sure to pick the craziest parts to depend on most.

You must have bought Hillary's book.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

So much anger. So much hatred. So much difficulty in finding the good in others.



One cannot take in the news without being faced with another act of evil. Murder. Rape. Assault. In ones neighborhood and throughout the world.



I thought to check out just what Evil, Morality, and Ethics are before discussing further.



EVIL



ADJECTIVE

1. profoundly immoral and malevolent:
   
   "his evil deeds" ·

1. 
   synonyms: wicked · bad · wrong · immoral · sinful · foul · vile · dishonorable · corrupt · iniquitous · depraved · reprobate · villainous · nefarious · vicious · malicious · malevolent · sinister · demonic · devilish · diabolical · fiendish · dark · monstrous · shocking · despicable · atrocious · heinous · odious · contemptible · horrible · execrable · lowdown · dirty

NOUN

1. profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force:
   
   "the world is stalked by relentless evil" · "good and evil in eternal opposition"
   
   synonyms: wickedness · bad · badness · wrongdoing · sin · ill · immorality · vice · iniquity · degeneracy · corruption · depravity · villainy · nefariousness · malevolence · devil · turpitude

MORALITY



NOUN

1. principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.
   
   synonyms: ethics · rights and wrongs · ethicality · virtue · goodness · good behavior · righteousness · rectitude · uprightness · morals · principles · honesty · integrity · propriety · honor · justice · decency · ethics · standards/principles of behavior · mores · standards
   • a particular system of values and principles of conduct, especially one held by a specified person or society:
     
     "a bourgeois morality"
     
     
   • the extent to which an action is right or wrong:
     
     "behind all the arguments lies the issue of the morality of the possession of nuclear weapons"

ETHICS



NOUN

1. moral principles that govern a person's or group's behavior:
   
   "Judeo-Christian ethics"
   
   synonyms: moral code · morals · morality · values · rights and wrongs · principles · ideals · standards (of behavior) · value system · virtues · dictates of conscience
   
   
2. the branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles. ADJECTIVE
   
   
3. profoundly immoral and malevolent:
   
   "his evil deeds" ·

1. 
   synonyms: wicked · bad · wrong · immoral · sinful · foul · vile · dishonorable · corrupt · iniquitous · depraved · reprobate · villainous · nefarious · vicious · malicious · malevolent · sinister · demonic · devilish · diabolical · fiendish · dark · monstrous · shocking · despicable · atrocious · heinous · odious · contemptible · horrible · execrable · lowdown · dirty
   
   NOUN
   
2. profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force:
   
   "the world is stalked by relentless evil" · "good and evil in eternal opposition"
   
   synonyms: wickedness · bad · badness · wrongdoing · sin · ill · immorality · vice · iniquity · degeneracy · corruption · depravity · villainy · nefariousness · malevolence · devil · turpitude

Words. All trying to explain what we are seeing and experiencing. Many try to explain it by claiming it’s due to mental instability – a nice word for insanity. But, what is the foundation for it?



This is just my personal opinion. We are seeing today the result of parenting – or the lack thereof. We learn and become who we are as we see our parents doing. No matter where we are in the world or the society in which we are raised, our view of the world comes from what we saw our parents and their adult associated showed us.



Are you short of temper? Perhaps one or both of your adult mentors was.



Are you racist or bigoted? Again, did you learn it from your parents?



And there is one other factor – just the fact that we find ourselves surrounded more often by evil. It fills the air and assaults our senses.



What can we do about it? Is it even possible to reduce its presence? And, what, if anything, can we do to protect ourselves from it?



So many questions and I have so few answers.



Anyone?

Take God out of public schools, children no longer are taught, right vs wrong, good vs evil, but 50 shades of grey.

Take God out of public places where no one can learn about immorality and what it does to man.

Back 2000 years ago, Rome was the greatest power of its age, but when the immorality of its denizens increased to the point civilization was no longer followed, Rome ended up decaying into nothingness. We are watching the next great country, following in the same footsteps of Rome, and little do the liberals realize that once the freedoms are gone, there is nothing left to protect them...the radicals will rule with an iron fist... That is how stupid the left is...

 

[mudwhistle]

So much anger. So much hatred. So much difficulty in finding the good in others.



One cannot take in the news without being faced with another act of evil. Murder. Rape. Assault. In ones neighborhood and throughout the world.



I thought to check out just what Evil, Morality, and Ethics are before discussing further.



EVIL



ADJECTIVE

1. profoundly immoral and malevolent:
   
   "his evil deeds" ·

1. 
   synonyms: wicked · bad · wrong · immoral · sinful · foul · vile · dishonorable · corrupt · iniquitous · depraved · reprobate · villainous · nefarious · vicious · malicious · malevolent · sinister · demonic · devilish · diabolical · fiendish · dark · monstrous · shocking · despicable · atrocious · heinous · odious · contemptible · horrible · execrable · lowdown · dirty

NOUN

1. profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force:
   
   "the world is stalked by relentless evil" · "good and evil in eternal opposition"
   
   synonyms: wickedness · bad · badness · wrongdoing · sin · ill · immorality · vice · iniquity · degeneracy · corruption · depravity · villainy · nefariousness · malevolence · devil · turpitude

MORALITY



NOUN

1. principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.
   
   synonyms: ethics · rights and wrongs · ethicality · virtue · goodness · good behavior · righteousness · rectitude · uprightness · morals · principles · honesty · integrity · propriety · honor · justice · decency · ethics · standards/principles of behavior · mores · standards
   • a particular system of values and principles of conduct, especially one held by a specified person or society:
     
     "a bourgeois morality"
     
     
   • the extent to which an action is right or wrong:
     
     "behind all the arguments lies the issue of the morality of the possession of nuclear weapons"

ETHICS



NOUN

1. moral principles that govern a person's or group's behavior:
   
   "Judeo-Christian ethics"
   
   synonyms: moral code · morals · morality · values · rights and wrongs · principles · ideals · standards (of behavior) · value system · virtues · dictates of conscience
   
   
2. the branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles. ADJECTIVE
   
   
3. profoundly immoral and malevolent:
   
   "his evil deeds" ·

1. 
   synonyms: wicked · bad · wrong · immoral · sinful · foul · vile · dishonorable · corrupt · iniquitous · depraved · reprobate · villainous · nefarious · vicious · malicious · malevolent · sinister · demonic · devilish · diabolical · fiendish · dark · monstrous · shocking · despicable · atrocious · heinous · odious · contemptible · horrible · execrable · lowdown · dirty
   
   NOUN
   
2. profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force:
   
   "the world is stalked by relentless evil" · "good and evil in eternal opposition"
   
   synonyms: wickedness · bad · badness · wrongdoing · sin · ill · immorality · vice · iniquity · degeneracy · corruption · depravity · villainy · nefariousness · malevolence · devil · turpitude

Words. All trying to explain what we are seeing and experiencing. Many try to explain it by claiming it’s due to mental instability – a nice word for insanity. But, what is the foundation for it?



This is just my personal opinion. We are seeing today the result of parenting – or the lack thereof. We learn and become who we are as we see our parents doing. No matter where we are in the world or the society in which we are raised, our view of the world comes from what we saw our parents and their adult associated showed us.



Are you short of temper? Perhaps one or both of your adult mentors was.



Are you racist or bigoted? Again, did you learn it from your parents?



And there is one other factor – just the fact that we find ourselves surrounded more often by evil. It fills the air and assaults our senses.



What can we do about it? Is it even possible to reduce its presence? And, what, if anything, can we do to protect ourselves from it?



So many questions and I have so few answers.



Anyone?

Take God out of public schools, children no longer are taught, right vs wrong, good vs evil, but 50 shades of grey.

Take God out of public places where no one can learn about immorality and what it does to man.

Back 2000 years ago, Rome was the greatest power of its age, but when the immorality of its denizens increased to the point civilization was no longer followed, Rome ended up decaying into nothingness. We are watching the next great country, following in the same footsteps of Rome, and little do the liberals realize that once the freedoms are gone, there is nothing left to protect them...the radicals will rule with an iron fist... That is how stupid the left is...

View attachment 159263

Democrats want to turn our kids into a bunch of apathetic self-centered assholes that don't respect authority.
Best way I know of to destroy any society is remove any respect for our leaders.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

So much anger. So much hatred. So much difficulty in finding the good in others.



One cannot take in the news without being faced with another act of evil. Murder. Rape. Assault. In ones neighborhood and throughout the world.



I thought to check out just what Evil, Morality, and Ethics are before discussing further.



EVIL



ADJECTIVE

1. profoundly immoral and malevolent:
   
   "his evil deeds" ·

1. 
   synonyms: wicked · bad · wrong · immoral · sinful · foul · vile · dishonorable · corrupt · iniquitous · depraved · reprobate · villainous · nefarious · vicious · malicious · malevolent · sinister · demonic · devilish · diabolical · fiendish · dark · monstrous · shocking · despicable · atrocious · heinous · odious · contemptible · horrible · execrable · lowdown · dirty

NOUN

1. profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force:
   
   "the world is stalked by relentless evil" · "good and evil in eternal opposition"
   
   synonyms: wickedness · bad · badness · wrongdoing · sin · ill · immorality · vice · iniquity · degeneracy · corruption · depravity · villainy · nefariousness · malevolence · devil · turpitude

MORALITY



NOUN

1. principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.
   
   synonyms: ethics · rights and wrongs · ethicality · virtue · goodness · good behavior · righteousness · rectitude · uprightness · morals · principles · honesty · integrity · propriety · honor · justice · decency · ethics · standards/principles of behavior · mores · standards
   • a particular system of values and principles of conduct, especially one held by a specified person or society:
     
     "a bourgeois morality"
     
     
   • the extent to which an action is right or wrong:
     
     "behind all the arguments lies the issue of the morality of the possession of nuclear weapons"

ETHICS



NOUN

1. moral principles that govern a person's or group's behavior:
   
   "Judeo-Christian ethics"
   
   synonyms: moral code · morals · morality · values · rights and wrongs · principles · ideals · standards (of behavior) · value system · virtues · dictates of conscience
   
   
2. the branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles. ADJECTIVE
   
   
3. profoundly immoral and malevolent:
   
   "his evil deeds" ·

1. 
   synonyms: wicked · bad · wrong · immoral · sinful · foul · vile · dishonorable · corrupt · iniquitous · depraved · reprobate · villainous · nefarious · vicious · malicious · malevolent · sinister · demonic · devilish · diabolical · fiendish · dark · monstrous · shocking · despicable · atrocious · heinous · odious · contemptible · horrible · execrable · lowdown · dirty
   
   NOUN
   
2. profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force:
   
   "the world is stalked by relentless evil" · "good and evil in eternal opposition"
   
   synonyms: wickedness · bad · badness · wrongdoing · sin · ill · immorality · vice · iniquity · degeneracy · corruption · depravity · villainy · nefariousness · malevolence · devil · turpitude

Words. All trying to explain what we are seeing and experiencing. Many try to explain it by claiming it’s due to mental instability – a nice word for insanity. But, what is the foundation for it?



This is just my personal opinion. We are seeing today the result of parenting – or the lack thereof. We learn and become who we are as we see our parents doing. No matter where we are in the world or the society in which we are raised, our view of the world comes from what we saw our parents and their adult associated showed us.



Are you short of temper? Perhaps one or both of your adult mentors was.



Are you racist or bigoted? Again, did you learn it from your parents?



And there is one other factor – just the fact that we find ourselves surrounded more often by evil. It fills the air and assaults our senses.



What can we do about it? Is it even possible to reduce its presence? And, what, if anything, can we do to protect ourselves from it?



So many questions and I have so few answers.



Anyone?

Take God out of public schools, children no longer are taught, right vs wrong, good vs evil, but 50 shades of grey.

Take God out of public places where no one can learn about immorality and what it does to man.

Back 2000 years ago, Rome was the greatest power of its age, but when the immorality of its denizens increased to the point civilization was no longer followed, Rome ended up decaying into nothingness. We are watching the next great country, following in the same footsteps of Rome, and little do the liberals realize that once the freedoms are gone, there is nothing left to protect them...the radicals will rule with an iron fist... That is how stupid the left is...

View attachment 159263

Democrats want to turn our kids into a bunch of self-centered assholes that don't respect authority.
Best way I know of to destroy any society is remove any respect for our leaders.

Just wait till Black Friday, that shows how the Hordes act towards each other....

 

[Mac1958]

So much anger. So much hatred. So much difficulty in finding the good in others.

We just haven't evolved enough as a species yet. We're still too controlled by our emotions - anger, greed, jealousy, pride, hate - and not enough by reason.

The only question is whether we'll give ourselves time to evolve or whether we'll destroy ourselves in the process.

We won't see big changes in our lifetimes. It is what it is. So we just keep going.
.

 

[tinydancer]

So much anger. So much hatred. So much difficulty in finding the good in others.



One cannot take in the news without being faced with another act of evil. Murder. Rape. Assault. In ones neighborhood and throughout the world.



I thought to check out just what Evil, Morality, and Ethics are before discussing further.



EVIL



ADJECTIVE

1. profoundly immoral and malevolent:
   
   "his evil deeds" ·

1. 
   synonyms: wicked · bad · wrong · immoral · sinful · foul · vile · dishonorable · corrupt · iniquitous · depraved · reprobate · villainous · nefarious · vicious · malicious · malevolent · sinister · demonic · devilish · diabolical · fiendish · dark · monstrous · shocking · despicable · atrocious · heinous · odious · contemptible · horrible · execrable · lowdown · dirty

NOUN

1. profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force:
   
   "the world is stalked by relentless evil" · "good and evil in eternal opposition"
   
   synonyms: wickedness · bad · badness · wrongdoing · sin · ill · immorality · vice · iniquity · degeneracy · corruption · depravity · villainy · nefariousness · malevolence · devil · turpitude

MORALITY



NOUN

1. principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.
   
   synonyms: ethics · rights and wrongs · ethicality · virtue · goodness · good behavior · righteousness · rectitude · uprightness · morals · principles · honesty · integrity · propriety · honor · justice · decency · ethics · standards/principles of behavior · mores · standards
   • a particular system of values and principles of conduct, especially one held by a specified person or society:
     
     "a bourgeois morality"
     
     
   • the extent to which an action is right or wrong:
     
     "behind all the arguments lies the issue of the morality of the possession of nuclear weapons"

ETHICS



NOUN

1. moral principles that govern a person's or group's behavior:
   
   "Judeo-Christian ethics"
   
   synonyms: moral code · morals · morality · values · rights and wrongs · principles · ideals · standards (of behavior) · value system · virtues · dictates of conscience
   
   
2. the branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles. ADJECTIVE
   
   
3. profoundly immoral and malevolent:
   
   "his evil deeds" ·

1. 
   synonyms: wicked · bad · wrong · immoral · sinful · foul · vile · dishonorable · corrupt · iniquitous · depraved · reprobate · villainous · nefarious · vicious · malicious · malevolent · sinister · demonic · devilish · diabolical · fiendish · dark · monstrous · shocking · despicable · atrocious · heinous · odious · contemptible · horrible · execrable · lowdown · dirty
   
   NOUN
   
2. profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force:
   
   "the world is stalked by relentless evil" · "good and evil in eternal opposition"
   
   synonyms: wickedness · bad · badness · wrongdoing · sin · ill · immorality · vice · iniquity · degeneracy · corruption · depravity · villainy · nefariousness · malevolence · devil · turpitude

Words. All trying to explain what we are seeing and experiencing. Many try to explain it by claiming it’s due to mental instability – a nice word for insanity. But, what is the foundation for it?



This is just my personal opinion. We are seeing today the result of parenting – or the lack thereof. We learn and become who we are as we see our parents doing. No matter where we are in the world or the society in which we are raised, our view of the world comes from what we saw our parents and their adult associated showed us.



Are you short of temper? Perhaps one or both of your adult mentors was.



Are you racist or bigoted? Again, did you learn it from your parents?



And there is one other factor – just the fact that we find ourselves surrounded more often by evil. It fills the air and assaults our senses.



What can we do about it? Is it even possible to reduce its presence? And, what, if anything, can we do to protect ourselves from it?



So many questions and I have so few answers.



Anyone?

For one thing......there's too many Democrats in the world

I was going to run with the foreberer of end times. She's known as Katrina and the waves. I swear she kicked in end times with that stupid song.

 

[G.T.]

I'd like to see the overall statistics on the world being any crazier now than it's ever been, before I drama queen over a false result brought on by 24/7 media.

 

[Two Thumbs]

So much anger. So much hatred. So much difficulty in finding the good in others.

We just haven't evolved enough as a species yet. We're still too controlled by our emotions - anger, greed, jealousy, pride, hate - and not enough by reason.

The only question is whether we'll give ourselves time to evolve or whether we'll destroy ourselves in the process.

We won't see big changes in our lifetimes. It is what it is. So we just keep going.
.

I read in 'The little red book of facts' that in all of recorded history, about 10k years, there has been world peace for 2% of that time.

The only difference between us way back when and now is that we are WAY better at killing each other.

 

[G.T.]

So much anger. So much hatred. So much difficulty in finding the good in others.

We just haven't evolved enough as a species yet. We're still too controlled by our emotions - anger, greed, jealousy, pride, hate - and not enough by reason.

The only question is whether we'll give ourselves time to evolve or whether we'll destroy ourselves in the process.

We won't see big changes in our lifetimes. It is what it is. So we just keep going.
.

I read in 'The little red book of facts' that in all of recorded history, about 10k years, there has been world peace for 2% of that time.

The only difference between us way back when and now is that we are WAY better at killing each other.

Better at killing each other, but .... doing it more, or less - have you researched?

 

[mudwhistle]

So much anger. So much hatred. So much difficulty in finding the good in others.

We just haven't evolved enough as a species yet. We're still too controlled by our emotions - anger, greed, jealousy, pride, hate - and not enough by reason.

The only question is whether we'll give ourselves time to evolve or whether we'll destroy ourselves in the process.

We won't see big changes in our lifetimes. It is what it is. So we just keep going.
.

I read in 'The little red book of facts' that in all of recorded history, about 10k years, there has been world peace for 2% of that time.

The only difference between us way back when and now is that we are WAY better at killing each other.

Better at killing each other, but .... doing it more, or less - have you researched?

It was much worse in 1941....

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

So much anger. So much hatred. So much difficulty in finding the good in others.

We just haven't evolved enough as a species yet. We're still too controlled by our emotions - anger, greed, jealousy, pride, hate - and not enough by reason.

The only question is whether we'll give ourselves time to evolve or whether we'll destroy ourselves in the process.

We won't see big changes in our lifetimes. It is what it is. So we just keep going.
.

Why over the past 40 years have humanity gone recessively towards tribalism instead of continuing on towards civility? Why over the past 8 years have the United States become so divisive, since the Civil War?

 

[norwegen]

I started noticing the decline when they banned lawn darts.

 

[gipper]

So much anger. So much hatred. So much difficulty in finding the good in others.



One cannot take in the news without being faced with another act of evil. Murder. Rape. Assault. In ones neighborhood and throughout the world.



I thought to check out just what Evil, Morality, and Ethics are before discussing further.



EVIL



ADJECTIVE

1. profoundly immoral and malevolent:
   
   "his evil deeds" ·

1. 
   synonyms: wicked · bad · wrong · immoral · sinful · foul · vile · dishonorable · corrupt · iniquitous · depraved · reprobate · villainous · nefarious · vicious · malicious · malevolent · sinister · demonic · devilish · diabolical · fiendish · dark · monstrous · shocking · despicable · atrocious · heinous · odious · contemptible · horrible · execrable · lowdown · dirty

NOUN

1. profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force:
   
   "the world is stalked by relentless evil" · "good and evil in eternal opposition"
   
   synonyms: wickedness · bad · badness · wrongdoing · sin · ill · immorality · vice · iniquity · degeneracy · corruption · depravity · villainy · nefariousness · malevolence · devil · turpitude

MORALITY



NOUN

1. principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior.
   
   synonyms: ethics · rights and wrongs · ethicality · virtue · goodness · good behavior · righteousness · rectitude · uprightness · morals · principles · honesty · integrity · propriety · honor · justice · decency · ethics · standards/principles of behavior · mores · standards
   • a particular system of values and principles of conduct, especially one held by a specified person or society:
     
     "a bourgeois morality"
     
     
   • the extent to which an action is right or wrong:
     
     "behind all the arguments lies the issue of the morality of the possession of nuclear weapons"

ETHICS



NOUN

1. moral principles that govern a person's or group's behavior:
   
   "Judeo-Christian ethics"
   
   synonyms: moral code · morals · morality · values · rights and wrongs · principles · ideals · standards (of behavior) · value system · virtues · dictates of conscience
   
   
2. the branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles. ADJECTIVE
   
   
3. profoundly immoral and malevolent:
   
   "his evil deeds" ·

1. 
   synonyms: wicked · bad · wrong · immoral · sinful · foul · vile · dishonorable · corrupt · iniquitous · depraved · reprobate · villainous · nefarious · vicious · malicious · malevolent · sinister · demonic · devilish · diabolical · fiendish · dark · monstrous · shocking · despicable · atrocious · heinous · odious · contemptible · horrible · execrable · lowdown · dirty
   
   NOUN
   
2. profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force:
   
   "the world is stalked by relentless evil" · "good and evil in eternal opposition"
   
   synonyms: wickedness · bad · badness · wrongdoing · sin · ill · immorality · vice · iniquity · degeneracy · corruption · depravity · villainy · nefariousness · malevolence · devil · turpitude

Words. All trying to explain what we are seeing and experiencing. Many try to explain it by claiming it’s due to mental instability – a nice word for insanity. But, what is the foundation for it?



This is just my personal opinion. We are seeing today the result of parenting – or the lack thereof. We learn and become who we are as we see our parents doing. No matter where we are in the world or the society in which we are raised, our view of the world comes from what we saw our parents and their adult associated showed us.



Are you short of temper? Perhaps one or both of your adult mentors was.



Are you racist or bigoted? Again, did you learn it from your parents?



And there is one other factor – just the fact that we find ourselves surrounded more often by evil. It fills the air and assaults our senses.



What can we do about it? Is it even possible to reduce its presence? And, what, if anything, can we do to protect ourselves from it?



So many questions and I have so few answers.



Anyone?

Take God out of public schools, children no longer are taught, right vs wrong, good vs evil, but 50 shades of grey.

Take God out of public places where no one can learn about immorality and what it does to man.

Back 2000 years ago, Rome was the greatest power of its age, but when the immorality of its denizens increased to the point civilization was no longer followed, Rome ended up decaying into nothingness. We are watching the next great country, following in the same footsteps of Rome, and little do the liberals realize that once the freedoms are gone, there is nothing left to protect them...the radicals will rule with an iron fist... That is how stupid the left is...

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Democrats want to turn our kids into a bunch of self-centered assholes that don't respect authority.
Best way I know of to destroy any society is remove any respect for our leaders.

Just wait till Black Friday, that shows how the Hordes act towards each other....

There is much evil in the nation today, partially due to a corrupt mainstream media who loves to sow divisiveness. I suspect it is not as bad as many proclaim, but I could be wrong. Maybe we are headed for a civil war...who knows?

There is another aspect of this and that is the evil committed and covered up by the wealthy elites. They of course get a different level of justice that most Americans are exempted from. You know....the Harvey Weinstein's and Bill Clinton's of the world.

This article spells it out rather well.



Our Culture of Rape
For the true sickness of our society and culture is measured not in the vile crimes of our entitled-insider class: it's measured by the armies of enablers, protectors, enforcers and apologists who protect the entitled-insider class from exposure and justice. After 25 years of blatant abuse of power and crimes that have yet to enter the court docket, 25 years during which the cream of the American media purposefully ignored his blatant abuses of power, the moldering putrid remains of American journalism has finally emerged from its fetid nests, trembling in the unaccustomed brightness of day, to "report," 25 years too late to save his innumerable victims, Harvey Weinstein's Army of Spies (New Yorker).

You know how incestuous and cowardly our entitled-insider class is, and how they operate: for 25 long years, editors in the self-glorifying citadels of American journalism killed every story that would have exposed Mr. Weinstein's actions to the world.

The same can be said of all the other predators hiding beneath the cloak of secrecy that protects the entitled-insider class from exposure.

Voracious predators like Bill Clinton mastered the fine art of forcing consensuality on their innumerable victims, considering the act of forced sex as little more than a standard perquisite of power, much like having the hotel door opened by servants.

The armies of spies, informers, PR flacks, security guards, attorneys, thugs, sycophants and handlers didn't just enable predatory exploitation of the peasantry: they actively recruited victims and set them up, just as powerless maids were trapped in the chambers of lords in feudal times.

The truly sick reality of our culture of rape is that nobody involved reckoned they were doing anything wrong. The sociopathological predators reckoned they were simply exercising their droit du seigneur, their right to take any woman they desired as a privilege of belonging to the entitled-insider class.

charles hugh smith-Weblog and Essays

 

[Two Thumbs]

So much anger. So much hatred. So much difficulty in finding the good in others.

We just haven't evolved enough as a species yet. We're still too controlled by our emotions - anger, greed, jealousy, pride, hate - and not enough by reason.

The only question is whether we'll give ourselves time to evolve or whether we'll destroy ourselves in the process.

We won't see big changes in our lifetimes. It is what it is. So we just keep going.
.

I read in 'The little red book of facts' that in all of recorded history, about 10k years, there has been world peace for 2% of that time.

The only difference between us way back when and now is that we are WAY better at killing each other.

Better at killing each other, but .... doing it more, or less - have you researched?

I would say it's about the same.

we probably kill more people, there's more of us to kill. But more wars? probably not

 

[Mac1958]

So much anger. So much hatred. So much difficulty in finding the good in others.

We just haven't evolved enough as a species yet. We're still too controlled by our emotions - anger, greed, jealousy, pride, hate - and not enough by reason.

The only question is whether we'll give ourselves time to evolve or whether we'll destroy ourselves in the process.

We won't see big changes in our lifetimes. It is what it is. So we just keep going.
.

Why over the past 40 years have humanity gone recessively towards tribalism instead of continuing on towards civility? Why over the past 8 years have the United States become so divisive, since the Civil War?

My guess is the proliferation of media and the internet, which have allowed us to pick the "facts" we like and avoid those we don't. Instantly. Daily. Constantly.

Nothing can create and exacerbate tribalism faster than that.

But we've chosen to do this, no one has forced us, so this is our own fault.
.