I'm not gonna bring religion into it unless someone else does first. 'Cause I don't wanna be mean. xD
But hay June.
Let's say I kidnapped someone, murdered them, and got life in prison. (I pray I never do that. O_O
So hai, I'm in prison. Herro, never getting out. Let's ask myself a few questions.
Why'd I do it? There's a good chance that I just didn't randomly pick out someone, and think, "Oh, I'm gonna go get her, and she'll never see the light of day ever again." Most likely, if I did something that drastic to someone, I'd have to know the person, right? That's mostly common sense. There are some sick people out there who do things to people because they're there, but for the most part, a lot of crimes happen between people who know each other, right?
'Kay. So, I did it, and I did it to someone I know. I'm going to take a big jump here. I'm going to say, that I perfectly knew what I was doing when I did it. That can be argued all day long, because sometimes people claim they're insane when they do crimes as drastic as these. (And I believe them. O_O)
I'ma use OJ as an example, 'cause we all know he did it. Haha, j/k. But really. If I killed someone, and knew perfectly well what I was doing, then what does that tell us? It tells us a lot of things. I chose to do that, on my own time. I may have known what I was doing was wrong, but I did it anyway.
And on that point, killing someone is wrong. We all think so, right? For the most part. Some of us think self-defense isn't wrong. If someone's trying to end your life, and you end theirs because you were protecting your own, it's okay, isn't it? What's the difference of that, and just killing someone because they're a threat? Or doing it in general? They died, you didn't. Only your morals are different in that situation. But the fact is, you killed a human being. Your own self concept doesn't change that.
Is that wrong? Maybe your parents rose you up in the mindset that you should protect yourself if someone messes with you. Maybe they rose you up, saying that you should avoid conflict. Either way, they told you something, and you set your beliefs upon it. Though, as you know, everyone has different beliefs.
Some people may believe that self-defense is okay, and some people may oppose that. But in retrospect, your beliefs define the roots of evil. Or it may contradict the idea. All in all, you yourself make evil what it is, and with trillions of people in the world, the word Evil has trillions of meanings.
Of course, religion makes a solid definition of evil, but religion is biased to which you believe in. So I'm not touching that.
xD
/Mini-Rant.
Haiiii.
That last statement was ludicrous.
