Evil seems to me to be made up of three basic behaviors: greed, envy and lying.
Greed may be (I believe is)
the underlying disease for the behavior for which envy is the motivation, and most of the time greed is also the
motivation for lying.
The only motivation I have ever seen for lying other than
greed is fear. This then brings up the question of whether or not fear motivated
lying is as evil as greed motivated lying. Another issue that muddies the all
lying is evil is the fact that at times lying can be very necessary to stop
someone from carrying out an evil act. An example of this is those people who
hid Jews from Hitler’s SS during world war two. These people obviously lied and
did good. Thus lying became not only a necessary evil at that time but became
an actual active good.
© 2012 Vic Jones
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