Evil
What is the
definition of evil? The direct definition of evil is profoundly immoral or
wicked or extremely unpleasant. Wrongdoing has been profound in the history of
human kind. That is the key difference between humans and animals. For example,
animals kill for nature. They need to kill for survival for life. For human’s
it is completely different. Humans sometimes kill for food but in human nature
we have reached to a point where majority of the world’s population do not need
to hunt to eat. We have reached a point of where we can walk into a store and
get varieties of foods, drinks and the rest. That’s not important though. That
is just a little idea of how we don’t need meat.
Evil is
intentionally hurting or harming someone without purpose. That is intentionally
kicking a friend because you felt like it. That is killing an animal without
reason neither ideas to eat the animal. So what are we? Why don’t we act like
other creatures. Animals act in their nature so does that mean that us humans
and murder is a big part of our nature. Were we born to kill? Or a we just
trying to be better? This is exactly the ideas that Golding had on the book
lord of the flies where a bunch of boys from around the 60s ended up crashing
onto an island trying to escape from a war and as they tried to survive on the
island. Majority of the boys became controlling, cruel, evil. They picked on
the weakest and ended up killing them also. Bearing in mind these young boys
were no older than 12.
Maybe society and
technology is stopping us from showing our true nature. Maybe we are all just
evil inside and layers and layer of leaders and love and society is covering up
our true nature. Our reality. There was an experiment in the 70s where it was
meant to last for 2 weeks which had to be stopped by 6 days and it was a bunch
of students who were separated into 2 groups the guards and prisoners and still
today this is very controvertial. The guards instantly and throughout the 6
days were mistreating the “prisoners and being increadibly harsh on them. Which
brings me to my next idea “authority”.
Most of our
influences come from who is leading us. Who is in power and what are they
telling us? We are always given a book of laws and told to follow them and if
we refuse we get punishments. This makes you really start to think. Right now
there is probably nowhere on earth without the simple rules. Do not kill ect.
If you are told certain rules since the day we were born is there any other way
to live. Even though we don’t realise it we are built on fear. We are told not
to do this and that and if we refuse to listen we are criminalised and given a
punishment. No way am I saying that these laws and rules are not good but lets
say that all the laws of your country would be refused straight away. Lets say
there was no authority giving us ideas and laws what would happen? Would there
just be chaos and danger?
I strongly believe
that humans are born evil and society and life in general makes us good or
evil. I have two examples from history and these were both during the same
period of time. The first was Nazi Germany. The first thing is nearly all of
the German men and women never said anything about the Jewish community and
some ratted out the people who were helping the Jewish. How did Hitler make all
the people from Germany hate Jews. How did they make all the people of Germany
hate communists. How? The one question is how could no one say anything or were
people too tired and too hungry and too weak to say hang on this is not okay.
This is wrong. To fully understand this you need to understand that Hitler
ruled with fear. He killed and destroyed those who refused to comply with his
rules.
However if we
remove that factor of cruelty then we realise that if all the people in Germany
stood up for their minorities then the holocaust might not have happened.
You can understand
this ideology from an experiment a teacher carried out around the 60s. This was
where she separated the class into 2. For people with blue eyes and those with
brown eyes. Then the teacher told the students with blue eyes that they were
better that the students with brown eyes. Straight after the one’s with the
blue eyes picked on the children with the brown eyes and also refused to sit
with them during lunch hours. These were impressionable children. They listened
to authority and straight after began to mistreat the brown eyed children just
because someone told them that they were as valued.
This makes you
realise that maybe someone who is influencial and strongly respected needs to
tell you that this is wrong and this is right for someone to listen and
actually follow up the requests. We are what we are told to be. There is no
such thing a unique because we are always influenced by something or someone. Which
brings we back to evil. Maybe to be evil you need to be born evil and also need
to be told to be evil. Maybe a part of your brain needs to be activated for you
to be evil but if you are loved and cared for maybe that part of your brain won’t
activate and you’ll be just fine.
That leaves me
with a question for each and every one of you to think of.
What about women?
A staggering 80% of more men are the killer and the rest is women?
Why are women less
likely to be evil?
Is it nurture or
nature?
But that’s another
story to tell.
