How do I know what is Good and Evil

I know what is good and evil because of a couple of reasons. One is through my instincts. I can tell what is right by thinking about it. Another way is through the law. The law is a rough guideline to what is right and wrong. It tells people what not to do. I can tell who is evil by what they say. If they swear or make racist or offensive jokes it is likely that they are evil. People who act suspiciously around people are also likely to be evil. People who ask strange questions could also be evil.


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Free Will and Determinism

If there is no free will then there would be no good and evil. The world would no longer have evil in it but with that comes a price. There would be no good. No one would be good. Our lives would have nothing interesting in them. We would not be able to do anything. Decisions are what make us who we are; decisions are what shapes us; without decisions the human race would not advance and everything would about our society would be the same for the rest of eternity.

Moral and Conscience

A friend of yours, who is also a popular and well-known student, boasts to you that he/she has managed to steal a copy of the semester science exam. He/she is prepared to sell it to anyone for $10.00. This test has a 50% weighting on the overall result. What do you do? Would you buy a copy for yourself? Would you report the incident?

The issue in this situation is that my friend is selling an important test.

It is important because it will count towards 50% of my science mark.

My decision will affect my marks, my friends, my teachers and my parents

The choices I could make are report the incident, ignore the incident or buy a copy.

The likely consequences for each choice is reported would affect my relationships with my friends, ignored would affect no one and buying would affect my parents and my teachers.

My family would tell me to report the incident however some of my friends would tell me to buy a copy.

Jesus would tell me to report the incident.

Wise judgment, courage and justice apply to this as you have to judge the situation wisely and justly and you need to be courageous to report it the incident.

The church teaches me that doing the right thing is important and sinning is not a good option.

Therefore, the decision I would make is to report the incident.

Lion King Good + Evil

Lion King Questions

Who are the ‘good’ characters from the film?
The good characters in the Lion King is Simba, Mufassa, Sazu, Simoan, Kumba and Refekki.


Who are the ‘evil’ characters from the film?
The evil characters in this film is Scar, the Hyenias, and Ed.


What qualities help define Simba as a ‘good’ character? Explain some of his personality traits and things he does in the film that demonstrate his ‘goodness’.

Simba has many good qualities such as Bravery, Generosity. He is also Courteous and Respectful. Simba ends up saving the lions from stavration which is a good act.

What qualities help define Scar as an ‘evil’ character? Explain some of his personality traits and things he does in the film that demonstrate his ‘evilness’.

Scar is evil in many ways through trickery, violence, hatred and the fact that he has no respect for anyone. Scar tricks many people throught the film such as Simba and the other lions.

What is the ultimate evil act that Scar does? Why does he do this? What does this make you think or feel about his character?

Scars ultimate act of evil is killing Mufassa and making Simba believe that he is the one who killed Mufassa.

 

What do you think the overall moral or message of the film is? What is it trying to explain to us about life? How do these morals or messages relate to the themes of good and evil?

The moral message of this story is that Good will always preval over Evil. Another message is that evil is not sustainible.

 

Genesis Study

 

 

Genesis 1 Wordle

Genesis 2 Wordle

Genesis 3 Wordle

 

 

 

 

 

 

The dominant themes in the Wordle for Genesis 1 are God, Earth, Light, Creatures, Sky, Day, Water Ground and good. For Genesis 2 the main themes are Man, God, Lord, Garden, Ground, Earth and Good. The third chapters main themes are Lord, God, Tree, Eat, Women, Garden, Man, Life, Fruit, Serpent, Food, Good and Evil.

It is interesting how good appears as a large word in the Wordles for Genesis 1 and 2 however in three Good is half the size and evil appears as the same size. There was almost no evil till the Serpent came out. I believe that this means that the world was half evil half good until humans learnt from their mistakes.

 

Definition of temptation: “A desire to do something, esp. something wrong or unwise: "he resisted the temptation to call Celia"; "we gave in to temptation”

In life there is always something that will tempt us. Sometimes it might be something like unhealthy foods. Other times you could be tempted to make the wrong decision with your friends. Temptation can sometimes cause people to do something extremely bad such as steal. Temptation will always tempt people to make the wrong decision. Temptation can be ignored and if everyone ignored temptation there would be a lot less evil just like in the first to chapters of Genesis.

 

This study has shown how temptation makes up for most of the evil in the world and how without temptation there would be less evil to worry about and everyone would feel safer.

Good and evil people throughout history.

Good

Jesus

Jesus was born in the year 6 BCE. He is the son of God. Jesus helped people all throughout his life and was always did the right thing. He preached the word of God. He became very well known however he was arrested and crucified after confronting moneychangers in a temple.

Jesus was good because he always tried to do the right thing. He never gave in to temptation.

Dalia Lama

 

The Dalia Lama was born on the 16th of July 1935. He is the spiritual leader of Tibet. The Dalia Lama has and still is coming up with non violent ways of bringing peace to Tibet. He has received a Nobel Peace Award for his efforts. The Dalia Lama is also always trying to promote compassion, happiness and forgiveness.

Mary Mackillop

Mary Mackillop was born on the 15th of January 1842. She was the first Australian saint. She went into poverty so that she could educate poor children. She also got many people to help her do this.

This is good as she sacrificed her wealth to assist people in need.

 

 

William Wilberforce

William was Born on the 24th of August 1759. He is known for abolishing slavery. He tried for years and even though to start off almost everyone was against him he tried his hardest. In the end he managed to trick people into reducing slavery then finally got the slave trade abolished.

This is a good thing as slavery affected many lives and slave ships had very bad conditions for slaves.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma was born on the 2nd of October 1869. He was the Spiritual and Political leader of India. His goal was to help poor farmers and put a stop to discrimination. He believed in living a simple life and made his own clothes and mostly ate the vegetables he grew.

Mahatma Gandhi is good because he came up with many quotes that help people make the right choice. He also tried his hardest to get rid of two things that make life hard for some people, discrimination and poverty.

 

 Evil

 

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler wanted to become an artist but was rejected by the academy of fine arts twice and soon became homeless. When world War 1 started Adolf Hitler was accepted into the army. Hitler was surprized when the Germans surrendered and worked as an intelligence officer. He joined a workers party which was called DAP. DAP then became NSDAP. In 1923 Hitler became the chairman of NSDAP. Hitler stormed a public meeting and was arrested for high treason and put in jail. He wrote a book on how he wanted to turn the German society into one based on race. Hitler became the leader of the Nazi’s in 1932.

Hitler was responsible for the death of two thirds of population of Jews in Europe and also started world war two. Both of these things are extremely evil.

 

Osama bin laden

Osama bin Laden is on of the most well known terrorists ever. His first offence was when he blew up a car. Eventually he moved on to the worst act of terrorism to this date, the bombings of 9 11.

 

This is the most evil terrorist attack ever made and could have been even worse if the attacks on the pentagon and white house were as successful as Osama had hoped.

 

 

Pol Pot

Pol pot was born in 1925. He was responsible for killing 25% of his countries population. This was through overworking, starvation and executions. He evacuated peasants from towns within Cambodia to save them from bombings yet they ended up working in a farm from 4am to 10pm. They only got 180 grams of rice every 2 days.

 

This is genocide which is an extremely evil crime to commit. Pol pot killed hundreds of thousands of people.

 Idi Amin

Idi Amin was born in 1925 and was the leader of Uganda. 300,000 people were killed during his reign. He sent armies to capture countries and expelled all the Asian people from his country.

 

 

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong was born on December the 26th 1893. He was responsible for the greatest man-made famine ever killing 40 million people through starvation. He also hid this from his nation and the rest of the world. He was regarded as an extremely good leader however that changed when word went around about the famine he caused.

 

 

Plato and Christian Beliefs on Good and Evil

Plato

Plato was a Greek philosopher born around 429 BC. He went to listen to Socrates and learnt about philosophy. Plato was disappointed when Socrates was killed in 399 BC and began to write down some conversations they had. Plato then began writing about his ideas on Philosophy as well. Plato believed that everything in the world had an ideal form and used a metaphor about a cave to describe it. If someone was chained up in a cave they could only see things inside the cave. They would only ever see shadows which they would believe the real world is. Plato believed that we could only see what we believed the real world was because we were trapped in our bodies. A tree for example would have an ideal form in our mind yet we cannot see it.

 

According to Plato humans ideal forms were their soul. Plato thought that our soul was divided into three parts. Our natural desire, our will and our reason. Hunger is a natural desire however your will lets you control your hunger and your reason tells you when you should eat or when you shouldn’t eat. If any of these parts are out of balance you would be a bad person.  If your natural desire is too strong you will be unable to control thing such as your hunger, sleep and violence so you will be eating at the wrong time or you would be violent towards others. If your will is too strong you may end up not eating entirely. If your reason is too strong you may be eating at completely the wrong time.

 

 

Christian

Christians believe that God has given them free will to choose between right and wrong. The Ten Commandments are God’s way of showing people the right way to live. According to Christians God is good and Satan is evil. Jesus died on the cross for the forgiveness of our sins. Some Christians believe that humans are born with evil because of the first sins committed by the first humans Adam and Eve. Christians also believe that some people have demons inside them and need to be healed. Jesus was said to of healed many people from demons in the Bible, which is a book that contains the events that Christians believe in.