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What do you consider evil?

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ecoanxiety · 17/01/2022 18:09

Obviously i am coming straight off the presence of evil thread.
I was just coming on to say that I don't have the same reactions to stories where men murder men as I do as men murdering women. In fact I have a stronger reaction to rape than I do to murder of a man or you beating to death in a bar fight.
Even though a rape doesn't end up with death it seems more.

I also was reading the thread about the poor woman who's DP was using escorts and that just made my skin crawl. A poster posted a link to reviews of escorts and the way those men talk about women. oh god I felt sick. I had a stronger reaction to that even than a murder. It felt so sick the way they just think its normal and they have their own acronyms like we do on mumsnet. But about paying young girls for sex. Dirty man said he was a pensioner and was upset with the service because he felt like the poor young lady wanted to finish quickly. Of course she did you dirty old perv! he even complained that he wasted his little bit of money on her and he doesn't get much now he's a pensioner... Well don't buy women's bodies then mate. 🙄

Pedophiles are at the top of the list but i can't think about that too much its too distressing.

I just wanted to gauge other people's responses since I thought it was odd that I'd get such a reaction from men rating women, but not as bad as a man losing his life. I wonder is it because I'm a woman? or because I have a daughter?

Any thoughts? i found my reactions quite interesting as it should go murder is worst, not rape or using prostitutes

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sadpapercourtesan · 17/01/2022 18:13

I don't believe in evil. I think it's an inadequate, outdated and unhelpful concept.

I believe in damage, and warped development, and learned selfishness. Cruelty is often some combination of these - there is always a chain of reasoning behind even the most appalling acts. I find it curious that people seem almost threatened by the idea that even the very worst human behaviour can be understood in terms of human development and damage - as though they think that somehow diminishes the enormity of the offence. It doesn't, but it might contribute to us as a species producing fewer of the offenders.

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