Hard question. I know I have done a lot of evil things. How many things turns them from isolated evil actions to being an evil person? Do you assign every action a morality score? It seems like a loaded word and an impossible question to answer.
My personal view is without free will- there really aren’t any evil people but physics has created the causes and effects that seem less than ideal for our society from our personal view. Are there good stars and evil stars? Good planets or bad planets? I would say they have the same amount of control in their actions as we do.
I am curious what it feels like to be committed to determinism. Does it produce a stoic mindset? Do you just find yourself viewing things that happen to you with a detached curiosity?
I don’t think about it honestly much. When I philosophize or get mad at someone, then I think about it, but I live my life like I have choices, hard to live every second thinking, ‘there is no free will, there is no free will’. The illusion is very strong.
Basically I think it makes me overly sympathetic to everyone. Perhaps to a fault where murderers I have sympathy for that they got assigned to a murdering body, while most others are saying you should feel bad for the one that was murdered. Why not both?
In a way it is more I am watching a movie, and the actors that are evil you don’t get mad at their actions as you realize it is a movie. You don’t say man I hate the person Heath Ledger as the Joker. That is his role and he is playing it, and in a weird way you appreciate what they are doing.
Hard question. I know I have done a lot of evil things. How many things turns them from isolated evil actions to being an evil person? Do you assign every action a morality score? It seems like a loaded word and an impossible question to answer.
My personal view is without free will- there really aren’t any evil people but physics has created the causes and effects that seem less than ideal for our society from our personal view. Are there good stars and evil stars? Good planets or bad planets? I would say they have the same amount of control in their actions as we do.
I am curious what it feels like to be committed to determinism. Does it produce a stoic mindset? Do you just find yourself viewing things that happen to you with a detached curiosity?
I don’t think about it honestly much. When I philosophize or get mad at someone, then I think about it, but I live my life like I have choices, hard to live every second thinking, ‘there is no free will, there is no free will’. The illusion is very strong.
Basically I think it makes me overly sympathetic to everyone. Perhaps to a fault where murderers I have sympathy for that they got assigned to a murdering body, while most others are saying you should feel bad for the one that was murdered. Why not both?
In a way it is more I am watching a movie, and the actors that are evil you don’t get mad at their actions as you realize it is a movie. You don’t say man I hate the person Heath Ledger as the Joker. That is his role and he is playing it, and in a weird way you appreciate what they are doing.
I could be wrong but it works for me.