What are the qualities that define evil?
Evil is everywhere and it is rooted in mankind's soul. Why would i say that? because evil is selfishness. We could talk about all aspects of evil, but the sole concept of evil is the disregard of others. Looking at the actions that are often consider as evil such as killing, it is a disregard of other people's life. The people kills the other man out of disregard and there fore the action is done. When people kill another person, all they were thinking about was themselves, either it is hateful feelings or it is a wish of another man, these are all ideas that stem from personal self interest. A person's personal self interest in theory is selfish thoughts.
Now stirs the question, are selfish people evil then? No, not necessary, selfishness is a quality that all people posses, it is the action that determines if a person is evil. The qualities of evil could be define by a number of different things but the fundamental quality of evil i believe is selfishness.
I really agree with your point that evil is selfish but selfish is not evil.
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