Originally posted by menace71
I would say yes something is wrong with man 🙂 All kidding aside why do we have evil? Recorded history shows that evil has been around since the beginning of recorded history and we can't eradicate it
Manny
To expand on this further, writing (recorded history) and private property (a result of the agricultural revolution) have been around for a mere 10,000 years or less. This amounts to less than 5% of the history of modern humans. But people somehow assume that recorded history is the sum total of human history, or that it represents humanity in its "true" state. It does not.
The way people have lived during their brief recorded history is decidedly at odds with how the human species evolved to live, i.e. as small, nomadic bands of gatherer/scavenger/hunters (in that order). That is the state mankind evolved in. It is the state he lived in for 95% of his history. What is recorded in history is mankind removed from that state by being placed into sedentary, densely packed, agricultural communities. It is an unnatural and pathological state that lends itself to all manner of behavioral disorders. As such, civilization itself is a pathological state. It has many beneficial effects, to be sure, but at a terrible cost. For it has made "evil" an ever present reality in human affairs.
The important point, though, is that evil is not inherent to mankind. It was introduced to mankind by his being placed into the pathological condition of civilization.