Originally posted by @suzianneLet people decide for themselves: Thread 170533 and Thread 171074
All because of gutless moderation here.
There once was a time on this very site when people were warned for making PMs public. Your unrepentant defense of doing so should have received the same warning, if not an expulsion. Clearly, there are, or at least were, people whose morality is questionable involved in the moderation here. Just as clearly, yo ...[text shortened]... it public was not nearly as successful among the forum regulars as it was among your 'friends'.
Originally posted by @dj2beckerInteresting.
I had little or no interaction with people who were not part of the cult I was part of.
Originally posted by @chaney3But she wasn't unaware. I told her. I did so in public. I told her that I had passed it on privately to several of my friends. To say she was "unaware of that action" is not true.
To maintain the spirit of this thread, it was 'evil' to share a PM with friends, when the sender was unaware of that action.
Originally posted by @fmfYou made her 'aware' of what you did.....AFTER you did it.
But she wasn't unaware. I told her. I did so in public. I told her that I had passed it on privately to several of my friends. To say she was "unaware of that action" is not true.
It doesn't count.
Originally posted by @chaney3But she had no veto over what I told my friends about what I had experienced. There was no onus on me to keep her behaviour secret. She even said at one point, I think, that she hadn't said anything in the PM that she had not already said in public.
You made her 'aware' of what you did.....AFTER you did it.
It doesn't count.
The experience of receiving that PM from her belonged to me, not to her. There was no confidentiality issue. She wasn't "evil" in sending it - daft and unpleasant maybe, but not "evil".
And I wasn't "evil" for not keeping what she'd done secret despite whatever benefit she might have thought such secrecy would have brought her.
FMF: [Sharing Suzianne's PM with my friends] was "evil"? Using what definition of the word?I would define "evil" as being egregious immorality and sociopathic action that is gravely detrimental and/or damaging to others, and which stems from an abject lack or even absence of empathy and compassion. Do you think your definition is more effective than mine?
Originally posted by @chaney3
"Something that is harmful or undesirable".
This was one of the definitions of evil, it will suffice in this case.
Originally posted by @fmfThere are different levels of evil according to the dictionary definitions. Your evil was of the lower level, however, it was evil nonetheless.
I would define "evil" as being egregious immorality and sociopathic action that is gravely detrimental and/or damaging to others, and which stems from an abject lack or even absence of empathy and compassion. Do you think your definition is more effective than mine?
Originally posted by @chaney3I would say the definition of "evil" that you have plumped for [so that you can claim that me telling my friends about a bizarre PM I received was an example of "evil"] renders the word "evil" virtually meaningless or, perhaps, just makes it nothing more than a sneering catch-all barb that people can throw at each other.
There are different levels of evil according to the dictionary definitions. Your evil was of the lower level, however, it was evil nonetheless.
I think the actions of people being described as doing "right" and "wrong" to varying degrees, is one thing, but to have such a ridiculous hair trigger for the use of the word "evil", and all its connotations, is straight from the psychological domain of the misanthropic religious extremist and the peddlers of manufactured outrage.
-Removed-I once had a pastor tell me that he MUST believe every word of the Bible, or none of it. Because anything in between becomes cherry picking of the scripture that you happen to agree with, and ignoring the rest.
In this case, evil exists, and Isaiah states that God created it.
Does that make God less good?
Does eternal hell and suffering need to exist just because God created evil?