LOL. Indeed it does!
But he does give a pretty good starter for a definition:
Colman:
Evil - being interested only in achieving your own aims regardless of their effect on others (with a side order of enjoying hurting others)
Lately, I've been hearing and reading more references to "evil" in more "liberal" press. Like this, for example:
Don't rationalize the evil of terrorism
Evil In Mumbai : NPR
... after covering too many killings, as a reporter or host, in Bosnia, Kosovo, Oklahoma City or Somalia, I've come to the conclusion that the perpetrators of such crimes might just be ... evil. Evil is a word that many people of my generation shrink from using. It seems so imprecise and uneducated -- biblical, rather than cerebral and informed.But there are times and crimes that remind me how often the Bible gets it right.
... after covering too many killings, as a reporter or host, in Bosnia, Kosovo, Oklahoma City or Somalia, I've come to the conclusion that the perpetrators of such crimes might just be ... evil.
Evil is a word that many people of my generation shrink from using. It seems so imprecise and uneducated -- biblical, rather than cerebral and informed.
But there are times and crimes that remind me how often the Bible gets it right.
I can't help but wonder, is it that because now that liberals hold the reins of power in the U.S., we feel more comfortable using words like "good" and "evil" that we used to reproach the conservatives for post-9/11. (I am not referring to Colman here, but to American liberals in the U.S. media.)
Or maybe my assumptions are wrong: for example, maybe liberals were also condemning evil during the Bush years as well, but i did not pick up on it in the din of the conservative cacophony. Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
Where's my bong? In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
A word humans use to give agency to that which fills them with Fear and/or Loathing
Hold on. OF COURSE! It's YOUR bong collection!
But...
(I remember being on the train, I remember Twank producing a grey handkerchief from his pocket, a handkerchief he opened, revealing a brownish lump. I remember him saying,
"Psychedelic truffle. Just try a tiny bit. I want to sell them to afew."
I remember thinking, "Well, anything to help afew!" and taking a bite.
And then I remember a BANG! and a voice shouting, "Bollocks!")
But....Essex? Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
I'd like to see a right wing definition of evil that isn't tautological. (E.g. replace 'godless' with 'evil', swap back and forth indefinitely.)
Right wingers believe liberals are evil because...?
