What Is Good and Evil?
Good and evil are often treated as obvious, supernatural, religious or absolute. A reasoned approach asks what these words mean, how they are used, and what evidence or consequences support moral judgement.
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Good and Evil
Questions about good, evil, virtue, cruelty, moral responsibility, avoidable harm, whether good and evil are absolute or relative, and whether evil is best understood as supernatural, psychological, social, or practical.
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Why Avoidable Suffering Matters
If a being can suffer, then what happens to that being matters. This does not solve every moral question, but it gives suffering serious ethical weight.
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Can morality exist without religion?
Yes. Religion can shape moral systems, but morality can also be reasoned from suffering, wellbeing, fairness, responsibility, consequences and social life.
Is evil supernatural?
Some religions describe evil as supernatural, but many forms of evil can be understood through human behaviour, psychology, institutions, fear, greed, obedience, ideology and dehumanisation.
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