Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site ucbvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!ucbcad!ucbvax!faustus From: faustus@ucbvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: What IS Evil? Message-ID: <9@ucbvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Jul-83 02:39:43 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.9 Posted: Mon Jul 4 02:39:43 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jun-83 02:50:40 EDT References: <323@houti.UUCP> Organization: U. C. Berkeley Computer Science Lines: 11 I think Tom Craver has the right idea about this. The concepts of Good and Evil are tools that we use to rationalize the workings of reality (stealing is considered evil because people will come and get me if I do it). Despite the protests of those who want a more meaningful justification for morality than simple patterns of human behavior, it is quite explicable in these terms. Morality is just a convenient packaging scheme for a sort of communal survival instinct. Wayne