What if you just became evil

[Jannes]

Its not the first time this question came up in the forum.

[WritingHands]

On 11/26/2024 at 2:51 AM, ricachica said:

One of Carl Jung’s sentiments was something along the line of 100 years from now, what would be considered “good” and “moral” now will be considered “evil” and “deplorable” then. Vice versa. (The Spirit of This Time vs The Spirit of The Depths talked about in The Red Book)

Back then, hangings in public were considered good. Now obviously it is not. Same with red stage’s view of pillaging and raping a village for their own benefit.

I study psychology to be a therapist, and obviously all the lobotomies taken place back then were considered “good”. Not so much now. Today a future possible “evil” can be produced by, for example… CBT, for all we know. Something we thought was good and for the best at the time. The future will only tell what the present can’t see yet.

Today, everyone is doing something “good” that tomorrow’s people will find “evil”. It’s inescapable. Entirely so? Not sure…maybe loads of self-awareness can help break away from some of it, though doubtful.

The harrowing thing to deal with is you already are evil in some fashion…

It’s all subjective and perspective based.

 

yes

water wet

we're stage red/beige folks

 

[WritingHands]

1 hour ago, Jannes said:

Its not the first time this question came up in the forum.

i'm surprised this question isnt as frequent as it is intentionally

[ricachica]

5 hours ago, WritingHands said:

yes

water wet

we're stage red/beige folks

 

Maybe I find red/beige evil too simple to entertain. Watch enough murder interrogation videos/read Crime and Punishment and you’ll easily get your answer. Hell, on a personal level I can give a few examples I acted out unconsciously as a kid that every person has a story about. I’m curious to see what green/yellow evil looks like for each of us, what we overlook presently.

Edited November 28 by ricachica

[LordFall]

I would argue that being evil is not only harmful but also doesn't even do hedonism correctly as it's too short sighted and you'll be stopped from embrassing your passions soon enough. If you want to rape people why not wait 5-10 years for VR so you don't end up in jail? What's the fun in embezzling money; I don't think you've experienced spending money you haven't earned. Gets old quickly. The best feeling in life is conquering your goals and the world and you can do that perfectly ethically and also gain the love and admiration of your people. 

There is no value proposition to evil; just low consciousness and foolishness. i.e. being an unevolved monkey. 

[WritingHands]

37 minutes ago, ricachica said:

 I’m curious to see what green/yellow evil looks like for each of us, what we overlook presently.

I encounter those types already and its pretty sneaky. 

Similar to double standards, just stabs harder. Theyre onto something nice but then they hit when its least expected

[Basman]

On 27/11/2024 at 5:21 AM, DianaFr said:

Yeah, it's called psychopathy. Complete moral freedom and dead soul. 

Do you consider animals soulless?

[StyxNStone]

That’s called the Left Hand Path. Practitioners of this path reject the concept of karma or the influence of a higher power.

 

[WonderSeeker]

On 11/25/2024 at 11:28 AM, Basman said:

Like, completely surrendered to your passions, cast away all morals and did whatever you want you could get away with, completely shamelessly, Sith style. Completely shirking all moral responsibility.

Embezzle money, manipulate, rape and prostitute, lie, steal, kill. Be as racist, misogynistic and hateful as you want. Complete freedom. Take no responsibility for anything. Spiritually go postal. What would be wrong with that exactly?

Surely, it would be a highly authentic experience to embrace being evil. Maybe you won't be THAT evil in practice just because you don't feel like it. Is this what its like to ascend morals?

Being evil isn't freedom.

It's actually below freedom.

[Jacob Morres]

So basically... republican? 

(Just jokes 😭)

Edited December 17 by Jacob Morres

[ted73104]

The negative energy you accumulate by doing  those things would trap you. You'd be addicted to doing those deeds over and over again. You'd also have a negative self image that prevents you from trusting others. And then what type of actions you impose on the world and everyone else, the world will naturally impose on you. Imagine evil people doing those things to you or those you love. So by going full evil mode in your definition is probably not even a zero sum game, it is a below zero game where you would 100% get fucked in the end.

[Basman]

On 12/16/2024 at 10:08 PM, WonderSeeker said:

Being evil isn't freedom.

It's actually below freedom.

Slave to your passions, right?

[Kksd74628]

@Basman

Would you want to?

[Basman]

10 hours ago, Kksd74628 said:

@Basman

Would you want to?

It's more of a thought experiment than something I'm seriously considering. 

It's an good question though. What if your morals are bullshit? Then what? Why not just be evil? What is wrong with it exactly?

[LoseYourvelf]

On 25/11/2024 at 8:49 PM, Leo Gura said:

Enjoy your time in hell.

Cope

 

edit, love you leo

Edited yesterday at 09:04 AM by LoseYourvelf

[Buck Edwards]

Being evil pays no dividend. 

This world is a clever place. Even if you truly wanted to be evil, you would get caught. What would you do about that? 

You would end up ruining your own life doing evil. The world is good at playing moral superiority games anyway and  you surely don't want to be caught up in that. 

If you think that by being evil you're being free or authentic, then it's simply your shadow side. It's sometimes good if some things are in the shadows. 

[Kksd74628]

@Basman

No, but you ask this because you had something on back of your mind.

[zurew]

It seems that you already baked in your hypothetical that you can get away with it, so appealing to practicality is redundant. So in this case we cant even appeal to things like karma or hell or  punishment from society or suffering caused by your conscience.

If we rule those things out, we are left with looking for objective morality. Even if there is a case to be made for objective morality, I don't think it would change anything (because if there is no punishment for not abiding by those objective moral laws, then why should you care about it)?

Maybe we can appeal to certain traits that you may or may not care about like rationality and if we pressupose that there is such a thing as objective morality, then being perfectly rational would mean abiding by those objective moral rules.  Or we can appeal to consciousness, where we pressupose that the more conscious you are, the less evil you are , but both of these cases (being perfectly rational or highly conscious) , what we are essentially doing has little to do with objective morality and more to do with appealing to your own subjective preferences (caring about being rational and or being highly conscious).  

So basically as far as I see it , no matter what line of thought we go down when it comes to your hypothetical, we end up with "yeah you dont have any good reason to be moral" (granted, that you wont be externally punished for it and granted that your conscience wont fuck you up)

 

There is more to be said about you possibly deluding yourself about your own subjective morals and preferences but this is a different question and we can bake it in your hypothetical that you are not deluded.

Edited 6 hours ago by zurew