More Buddhist violence

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Neither. Good and bad are constructs that exist only within the context of one's social arrangement.

So if it would be socially acceptable to beat the snot out of you (for whatever social reason in the law books of this make believe township), you would be okay with it? I fear that evil is evil, regardless of what society says. Look at the way women have been treated in the Middle East and most Asian countries in the past. Do you think they enjoyed that? No, the accepted it, and that still makes it bad.

A young child with no sense of right or wrong will still do a selfish act, and take something that is not his.

A society that started out decent will deteriorate, and fall. This has been proven time and again in history.

I heard once that a measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never get caught.

If you walked by a pile of money, you were broke and didn't know where you would get the food for your family that day, and no one was around in a deserted place, would you keep it?

I think we are inherently bad and struggle to be good. But that's ok. It's hard to know what good is unless you experience bad. And we are here to help each other. That's what life is all about.

P.S. -Go Angels!