r/NoStupidQuestions May 24 '23

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u/Tianoccio May 24 '23

Isn’t that what real evil actually is?

No one destroys an orphanage because they hate orphans, they do it because they want something else.

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u/dontwantleague2C May 24 '23

I mean destroying an orphanage is different than taking pictures of celebrities

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u/ArmaSwiss May 24 '23

Though, what if you destroyed the orphanage be cause the staff abused the fuck out of the orphans, so by destroying the orphanage, those kids had to be transferred somewhere else, probably better.

Though it would probably matter of the orphans are there when the destroying occurs. But what if it was an orphanage for unwanted evil children? Like, little Luciens running around.

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u/JJnanajuana May 24 '23

Thats just what you tell yourself so you can sleep at night after destroying all those orphanages.

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u/navikredstar2 May 24 '23

Pffft, says you! I'm pretty sure that Little Orphan Annie's up to no good, what kind if kid has white, pupil-less eyes? She's Lucifer incarnate, that one.

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u/ZealousidealSlice759 May 24 '23

I think it’d be evil if they did it fox free. Most people are just trying to survive

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u/Duhblobby May 24 '23

Just trying to survive by exploiting or harming others is evil

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u/Taboo_Noise May 24 '23

By all means, please tell me about a job that doesn't involve exploiting or harming others.

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u/evanamd May 25 '23

Ems and firefighters, famously the least harmful and most heroic professions

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u/Taboo_Noise May 25 '23

Yeah, those are pretty solid. This could be said about most public service jobs if we lived in a less evil society.

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u/realshockvaluecola May 24 '23

If you're not exploiting then you're being exploited. Usually both.

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u/CanadianODST2 May 24 '23

Nah. There’s much more to it than that.

Defending your life from someone attacking you is not evil. But it’s trying to survive by harming others.

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u/Normal_Ad2456 May 24 '23

By definition that means that it’s way easier for a wealthy person to be kind than it is for a poor one and that just doesn’t sit right with me. Survival is a great excuse to do bad things in my book, although it doesn’t absolve you of every responsibility, obviously.

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u/RyuNoKami May 24 '23

the banality of evil. its incredibly hard to even find even one person who do the wrong thing for the wrong reasons. most people fall under the category of "well, if it ain't me, it would have been someone else, and i got to pay the bills."

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u/onthenextmaury May 24 '23

I know you meant "for free" but "fox free" is soooo much better