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To: kosta50; Diamond; Alamo-Girl
Being selfish is simply an antisocial phenomenon. No society to my knowledge promotes selfishness.

What is it that makes a phenomenon "antisocial?"

What does the word "good" mean to you? For that matter, what does the word "evil" mean to you?

506 posted on 08/19/2010 11:26:29 AM PDT by betty boop (Those who do not punish bad men are really wishing that good men be injured. — Pythagoras)
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To: betty boop; Diamond; Alamo-Girl
What is it that makes a phenomenon "antisocial?"

The way I see it, it is the opposite of unselfishness (unsalefishness being a virtue in our culture) and is therefore a vice.

Since both virtue or vice are encountered only in man-made cultures or societies (the artificial man-made world we call civilization), both have no meaning in the natural world, imo.

What does the word "good" mean to you? For that matter, what does the word "evil" mean to you?

Without looking up a dictionary definition, I would say that to mnean it means something which is implicitly or explicitly beneficial. Evil, on the other hand, is that which is implicitly or explicitly injurious.

507 posted on 08/19/2010 5:10:44 PM PDT by kosta50 ("I [God] am tired of repenting" -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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