@Alex-Balint said in Is Evil Learned or Inherent?:
@TheGoldenMole most of the time, the shadow cannot be seen from the perspective of the person themselves, they become incapable to see it and the negative behaviour becomes unconscious.
It is often the extremists who believe they are fighting for a cause of utmost goodness that commit the most evil crimes (as we see it) but they don't know because it is so in their sphere of understanding, which is shared by their society
But then, we have a much more generalized similar attitude, in many concerns: take killing animals for instance(tough subject many don't want to consider), it is considered good. What? Then when you expose animals' suffering and emotions to them they say it's at least necessary. Ok, but science doesn't back this, by meat causing cancer. But then they agree with you, and say their change cannot make a worldshift, because in fact it goes much deeper into their attachments, eating is a form of connection, and one subconsciously realises they would break that connectionwith some people.
Too much meat causes cancer, rarely eating meat seems to make you healthier... in fact statistically somebody who eats meat once a weak seems to be the healthiest. But then there are lots of studies, saying quite contradictory things, and like with most medical things, one has to admit, that science really does not know how our bodies actually work... This you can see by the fact that there are soooooo many oppinions on diet (whereever there is no knowledge, you'll find lots of loudly voiced opinions :joy:)
I'm quite angry with christianity saying we don't have to think about it, we just have to follow what the custom is and that is the path to redeeming your sins, when the church is sometimes the most unaware of societal structures
Actually christianity does not say that we should not deal with animals suffering. Christianity does not even say you have to eat meat :shrug:... It basically just says that humans are a lot more important than animals. I for one do agree with that. On that note let's not forget, that any sane person should understand, that the conditions under which we grow our livestock actually makes us sick too, and thus certainly is unchristian already from a pro-human perspective... And I mean it's mainly done like this for profit, which again, is unchristian...
Then christianity also says, that it is our job to properly take care of creation, which IMHO includes not stuffing animals into cages basically their own size, and pumping them full of antibiotics so they don't get sick from treating them like this. In fact christianity gives you the impetus to engage in society and make it a better place in any regard really to the extent of your power.
However many christians are not really christian. They think going to church and doing what the everybody does, and judging others for not doing the same, is what get's them into heaven. Well it doesn't, and (almost) every church says that too.
