Les Jenkins wrote:
>
>Tomi Makitalo wrote:
>
>> What is the difference between being evil and being mean? Aren't they one
>> and the same? Only evil persons are mean, and all the mean persons are
evil,
>> dig?
>
>That's a very black and white view of the world.

I cannot help it. That is the way I see it.

>By your definition there are no
>"good" people in the world, only "evil" as everyone has been mean to
someone
>else at one time or another.

I think I have to clarify my opinion a little: I did not mean that when
someone insults me, he is mean person. But if the person keeps on insulting
me day after day, year after year, that is mean. And that, too, makes the
person evil.

>The problem is the fact that good and evil, mean
>and nice, are largely subjective concepts that change from person to person
and
>society to society.

>As an example, most folks might saying that killing someone is mean and
therefor
>an evil thing to do, and yet many folks have also gone to war and killed
people
>in support of some cause or idea they believed it.

That is still very, VERY bad thing to do. I do not understand people who are
willing to kill for their beliefs.

>Many folks in some places of
>the world support the idea of assisted suicide which allows those with
terminal
>diseases to decide when to end their lives and gives them the help needed
to do
>so. The idea of allowing someone who is living a life of constant pain end
it in
>by his own choosing seems a merciful and compassionate thing to me, but to
>others it's the most vile and evil act one could commit. So, is killing
someone
>always an evil and mean thing to do? Or are there exceptions to the rule?
Who
>determines the exceptions?


You're talking about euthanasia. If someone wants to get himself killed, it
his own decision, and should be considered as 'assisted suicide',  not
murder.


>> >Sick-ass! ;)
>> >
>>
>> YEEEESSSSSS!
>
>You guys should try reading some of William S. Burroughs stories sometime.
>Something like "Spare Assed Annie". It'd be interesting to hear your
thoughts on
>him.
>


Burroughs? I think I'll visit the local library...

>Les
>

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- Tomi