*Shruggs*
I simply prefer to define what is evil.
I know, it's kind of a nebulous thing. You can arbitrarily point at anything and claim that it's "evil". That happens a lot even these days.
But I like to think that my own litmus for evil is an ideal that many can agree to, if only they can put their own prejudices aside.
To me, evil is actively going out of your way to make someone's life worse. Not even being a bystander - we all know why some of us are just bystanders. We don't want them to suddenly turn their attention towards us. And that's a legitimate concern - I won't fault many people for it.
But the act of making it your purpose to spread misery? To actively hurt people? To profit off of human suffering?
To me, that is the epitome of evil.
And when so-called "conservatives" make it their mission in life to hurt women by removing their reproductive rights? To marginalize minorities? To spread fear and xenophobia? You're not a conservative. You're just plain evil.
It's no secret around here that I was raised as a Latter-Day Saint and that even though I don't talk to God much these days, I do adhere to a lot of the core tenets. One of those being that you shouldn't judge people - that is a right saved exclusively for the man upstairs himself. But that doesn't mean that we don't do anything about people that are this misguided.
But that will only happen so long as voters continue to show up at the polls and say with their votes, "No, I do not want your hatred and undisguised avarice in my life. Be Gone!"
I simply prefer to define what is evil.
I know, it's kind of a nebulous thing. You can arbitrarily point at anything and claim that it's "evil". That happens a lot even these days.
But I like to think that my own litmus for evil is an ideal that many can agree to, if only they can put their own prejudices aside.
To me, evil is actively going out of your way to make someone's life worse. Not even being a bystander - we all know why some of us are just bystanders. We don't want them to suddenly turn their attention towards us. And that's a legitimate concern - I won't fault many people for it.
But the act of making it your purpose to spread misery? To actively hurt people? To profit off of human suffering?
To me, that is the epitome of evil.
And when so-called "conservatives" make it their mission in life to hurt women by removing their reproductive rights? To marginalize minorities? To spread fear and xenophobia? You're not a conservative. You're just plain evil.
It's no secret around here that I was raised as a Latter-Day Saint and that even though I don't talk to God much these days, I do adhere to a lot of the core tenets. One of those being that you shouldn't judge people - that is a right saved exclusively for the man upstairs himself. But that doesn't mean that we don't do anything about people that are this misguided.
But that will only happen so long as voters continue to show up at the polls and say with their votes, "No, I do not want your hatred and undisguised avarice in my life. Be Gone!"