Thursday, March 1, 2012

The notion radical evil


               When we think of all the wars and blood shed that the world went through we ask ourselves who did it and why. The only answer we can get is that those people are evil.

         Personally I don't think that there is anything called evil, I think that evil is nothing but a good positive power which haven't been used properly .an evil person is just a person who uses his abilities in ways that the world don't understand .take for example the notorious  Al Capons . He was supposedly the most evil man u could know. He could kill an innocent person just if he didn’t like his face or the way he smiled .it is very interesting that AL capon never saw himself as evil doer ,as a matter of fact he viewed himself as servant of society. he said once( I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.)For AL Capone the problem is in the world which didn't understand him and his reform theory.

         Immanuel Kant dealt with this matter of radical evil and concluded that it is impossible for any human being to take the extreme side when it comes to evil. For him evil contradicts the good nature of human beings. Evil is nothing but a tendency to satisfy the human need in unconventional means. Kant also believed that human beings cannot “be morally good in some ways and at the same time morally evil in others” In other words, human beings cant be extremely good or extremely evil. Of course many if not all the other philosopher disagreed with him. People could not disregard the horrible massacres that took place in the twentieth centry. If not evil that makes people commit all those massacres than what is it.

             Before the collapse of the Libyan regime and the murder of Al Gaddafi I have always heard of a person called Mansur Dou. I have always heard that he committed the most brutal crimes you can ever imagine. As his name indicates Dou in Arabic meant electricity and u know no one wanted to mess with electricity so just the name of the person was shocking. After he was arrested I was expecting some evil brutal looking person .I was expecting seeing the ultimate evil it was like getting Adolf Hitler alive but I was really surprised if not shocked. The person was the nicest man you could ever meet, he was polite and he looked peaceful he even showed regret form what he did, which was also surprising

         What I mean is that no matter how evil the person or his actions may look remember that people always think they are right. When some people are stealing they say to themselves they are just borrowing when some people are committing war crimes they say to themselves the world will thank me later. If we understand that and stop judging people the world will certainly be a better one .

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