Evil

Sorry, I had to disable comments on this particular video because quite a few of them were inappropriate, even threatening. The views expressed in this video are those of Peter Singer, and not my own. This is a summary of his most famous and controversial philosophy paper, originally published in 1972.-- Jeffrey Kaplan, on «Peter Singer - Ordinary people are evil»."3,397,077 views Jan 23, 2020, [in playlist] Introduction to Ethics". R. date of entry.
We cannot understand and fight evil as long as we consider it to be an abstract concept external to ourselves.
— Lars Svendsen, A Philosophy of Evil, p. 231
Yes. They infantilize to keep you developmentally stunted and controllable. You end up parentified because they are obsessed with their own needs to the detriment of your own (acting like children in adult bodies).
--- Katherine Miura, Dr. Katherine K. Miura is a psychiatrist in Lynn, Massachusetts"Art Director, Author, CEO, Therapist  ·  Follow Owner at Psychotherapist in Private Practice (2021–present)11mo"
There is no theological evil. There are only heat dissipation processes, and variously refined control systems. There is no original sin, or original fall. There is only play for the experience and the fun of it. The creation of theological evil as a concept is only the product of random processes in nature, the throw of dice. There are evil people, but they are only the product of random scrambled forces---of evolutionary debris. Serial killers and abusive satanists are usually the products of child abuse, or neglect and alienation---since child abuse creates alienation from society, but its ultimate root is trauma, which can result from uncounted processes such as poisoning or a hit to the head. Evil in mankind is ultimately just the product of animal evolutionary inheritance (this is well documented in various disciplines, which compare humans to the behavior of animals, see e.g. Robert Sapolsky's lectures at Stanford). Evil is simply the assortment of various processes the human is able to elevate itself from; personified in various theo- or mythological or otherwise doctrinal or creative terms, be it as Mara, Satan, Ahriman, Loki or the Orcs. Disorder is real and it can make us act in evil ways, by chance or fate, call it chance or fate, or unluck.G. Eiríksson 
If you had the opportunity to feed harmless bugs into a coffee grinder, would you enjoy the experience? Even if the bugs had names, and you could hear their shells painfully crunching? And would you take a perverse pleasure from blasting an innocent bystander with an excruciating noise? [...] Recently, he has started probing even further into the darkest shadows of the psyche.  “We were pushing the envelope, asking more extreme questions,” he says – when he found that some people will also readily admit to inflicting pain on others for no other reason than their own pleasure. Crucially, these tendencies are not simply a reflection of the narcissism, psychopathy or Machiavellianism, but seem to form their own sub-type – “everyday sadism”. For this reason, Paulhus now calls it a “dark tetrad”. [...] Arguably, a rational human being shouldn’t care too much about bugs’ feelings. But the team then set up a computer game that would allow the participants to “punish” a competitor with a loud noise through their headphones. This wasn’t compulsory; in fact, the volunteers had to perform a tedious verbal task to earn the right to punish their competitor – but, to Paulhus’s surprise, the everyday sadists were more than happy to take the trouble. “There wasn’t just willingness to do it but a motivation to enjoy, to put in some extra effort to have the opportunity to hurt other individuals.” Importantly, there was no provocation or personal gain to be had from their cruelty – the people were doing it for pure pleasure.
He thinks this is directly relevant to internet trolls. “They appear to be the internet version of everyday sadists because they spend time searching for people to hurt.” Sure enough, an anonymous survey of trollish commentators found that they scored highly on dark tetrad traits, but particularly the everyday sadism component – and enjoyment was their prime motivation. Indeed, the bug-crushing experiment suggested that everyday sadists may have more muted emotional responses to all kinds of pleasurable activities – so perhaps their random acts of cruelty are attempts to break through the emotional numbness.--- By David Robson 30th January 2015https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150130-the-man-who-studies-evil
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== Media ==
=== Books ===
* «Peter Singer - Ordinary people are evil» | on YouTube channel «Jeffrey Kaplan».
* Something Wicked This Way Comes: Essays on Evil and Human Wickedness""
====Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, Volume 57====
Volume Editors: 
Colette Balmain
and 
Lois Drawmer
The papers collected in this volume are expanded from papers given at the 6th Global Conference on Evil and Human Wickedness, which took place in March 2005. The chapters here represent the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of the conference itself covering topics such as historical and theological concepts of evil, media representations of evil, contemporary debates surrounding the Bosnia war and woman perpetrators in Birkenau, and the construction of the Other as evil in the face of the continuing hysteria over AIDS. The range of the papers collected here makes this book essential reading for students of all humanities disciplines.See Less
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:2009
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:978-90-420-2879-1
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:01 Jan 2009
==Rhizomata==
*Trauma; Human trauma; Maladaptive behavior; Why does god permit evil; The Good; bad behavior 
*Fallibility; Temptation
*Good; Justice; Value; bad; the bad; badness; corrupt; human corruption; human moral corruption; bad humans; bad person 
* wickedness; Unscrupulous; Cruelty; Sociopathy; Malignancy
* commentators: Jesus; the accelerationism of evil; evil in christianity; evil in islam; evil in buddhism; the devil; demons;
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