In my book, The Devil & Miss Prym a foreigner arrives in a village to tempt a woman. I wanted to explore the fight of good and evil and would like to ask you:
Do you think man is intrinsically bad ?
Love,
Paulo
Do you think man is intrinsically bad?
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The Evil that we encounter serves to improve us, “to purify us.” We all have the ability to change and improve our lives and those of others around us by exemplary behaviour. There are countless ways to achieve such a goal. Although there are too many to mention, a good beginning for all of us would be to analyze the things upon which we focus. We tend to emphasize the things to which we pay attention. If we choose to focus on Evil, that is to say on negative things, on our limitations, our faults or those of others, we thus give importance to Evil and make it grow a little more because of us. This is exactly the same process if we focus on the Good, that is to say positive things about our capabilities, our strengths and those of others, then we participate in their development and Goodness will grow a little more thanks to us.
Gosto da ideia de tabula rasa de John Locke.Acredito que ninguém nasce mau,mas se torna mau.Quando crianças sofremos uma forte influência na nossa personalidade.E se uma pessoa sofreu com preconceitos,injustiças ela pode se tornar uma pessoa amargurada e com falta de empatia pelos seus semelhantes.Todos nós queremos ser amados,respeitados,admirados e queridos,mas infelizmente nem todos conseguem isso e cada um se comporta de um jeito.Alguns se isolam,outros ficam deprimidas,alguns outros procuram vícios para tamparem o vazio em seus corações e outros acham o ” conforto ” na raiva,essas pessoas podem ter ficado más somente para se sentir vivas novamente, se elas não conseguiram o respeito e a admiração através do amor elas tentam conseguir respeito através do medo que as pessoas sentiram dela.Eu acho que é isso.
Perfect grey anatomy.:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwxu7YLv97E&feature=related
To categorise man “good” or “bad” is not justified because his actions are governed by a thought and that thought could be right or wrong. Even a murderer can be right from his perspective and he can give 100 reasons why he killed that person and his mother will surely believe him but before law he is a murderer. In whole life span each person plays diverse roles and he cant be perfect in all. So the good and bad elements are present in all. man is grey neither black nor white… as per the circumstances he manipulates things…
exacto el hombre para mi no nace ni bueno ni malo nace puro mas la educaciòn la vida y las diferentes situaciones en que lo pone la vida lo hace actuar de tal o cual forma pero para eso tiene la oportunidad de instruirse, y saber que es bueno y que es malo solo pienso que hay formas de ser malo por ejemplo las personas que no estan bien de la cabeza es decir estn enfermas o tambien aquellas que se dejan influenciar por diferentes sectas se convierten de la noche a la mañana en seres humanos que ni la familia logra reconocerlos y a veces ya no hay remedio.
Man is not bad or good, man is good AND bad. Sometimes keeping from doing the wrong thing does not necessarily result in doing the right thing.
We are born as innocent little beings, I don’t think we are bad, I think we are influenced by our upbringing, by our culture by whomever. If we do something bad we eventually realize it and we change, we are fogiven.
However there are exeptions of maddness, for example Jeffery Dummer, who said if he was to be let free he is afraid he would kill again, so if you think about it he did have a concience of what he did, but he simply said he couldn’t control it, now how is that? I am not juding him because it is not up to me to do that I simply don’t understand it.
I work as a nurse, not on a psych unit but we do have cases where I see people gone mad, but that is another subject, that I think is beyond their control.
That is such a vast field to explore.
Thank you, always intruiding questions from one and only Mr.Coelho:)
Love always
what about the latin proverb: Homo homini lupus? makes you reflect….
People are basically good…
non penso che la cattiveria sia intrinseca nell’uomo.Quando penso ad un bambino appena nato,ai suoi primi anni ,non riesco a trovare cattiveria.La cattiveria non e’ leggittimabile,specialmente quando racchiude un pregiudizio,invidia ,rabbia repressa,
we are primitive inside , out of fear and long training thru education ..we act like domesticated animals….
no
me neither
man are not bad, as we see them they are ,as we feel them they are, as we realise them they are the most importent thing is that they contain a nice and beautiful soul inside them which ask them to have love, to conquer the whole world with hand in hand of their other half we need to be very much clean to see a man from inside, we need not to be very much curious to understand them as curicity aiways leads you to other directaion in other word it stops you from floatig like river besause they are woman inside there is no diffrent between man and woman as both of them living in this nice and very very very beutiful planet sharing the same soul which was gifted by god and which has been protecting by god since adam and eve”s era
It is our choices, that show what we are, far more than our abilities.Curiosity is not a sin. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity. An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind
what is good and what is bad.. it is different when seen from different point of views.
No. Only mankind can create the idea of bad and good. We are part of the universe and part of the world and part of nature. We cannot be judged by ourselves as that is an insult to God.
I think man is good intrinsiclly, but acording to his choices he can become bed. He can choose life or death.God asked us to choose life.
What’s bad?
Not to be nearer to Mother Nature…
Yes, man is intrinsically bad.
Man is neither born good or bad, but is born with enormous potential. In some instances of life, influences brought about by immeadiate surroundings and close ones will lead to a specific choice.
Yet in other circumstances (for eg. growing up)will leadto more awareness regarding choices one is capable of making in life, and thereby either good or bad will predominate:)
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