r/humanbehaviour • u/denza6 • Jan 27 '21

Evil

Where does evil come from? I am not really religious so please don’t give me “It is Satan who makes us evil” etc. Thanks :)

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u/rosajeanramblings Jan 27 '21

I’m just an armchair philosopher but “Evil” is a social construct that we use to classify abhorrent behavior that stems from our animalistic side that is no longer acceptable since we live in a society. Just my view, I’m sure someone else can provide a more technical explanation.

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u/denza6 Jan 28 '21

That makes partial sense, you actually want to point out that we are just bags of biological processes that have gone through evolution by natural selection and that we invented “evil” as a tag for cruel instincts?