An example of wrongdoing is a student cheating on a test. It is a wrong since the students used an unethical method to take his test. Yet, many would not perceive it as an act of evil, since it did not bring a significant intent of harm. This begs the question of what extent is a wrongdoing consider evil? Claudia Card offers her theory of evil. Card’s main argument of evil is that it is defined by 2 factors, one of them being evil a foreseeable intolerable harm and the other is culpable wrongdoing. She distinguishes evil from wrongdoing by stating that “nature and severity of the harms, distinguish evil from ordinary wrongs” (). I agree with this statement since not all acts that are wrong are evil demanding on the degree of harm caused. Card uses her atrocity paradigm to illustrate the differences of evil wrongdoings and ordinary wrongdoing. She illustrates that atrocities are forms of evil, but justifies that not all atrocities are evil. To illustrate, a natural disaster such as a hurricane or a tsunami be an atrocity, but not an evil. It is not justified as evil since there is no human act to create a natural disaster with the intention to create significant harm to
An example of wrongdoing is a student cheating on a test. It is a wrong since the students used an unethical method to take his test. Yet, many would not perceive it as an act of evil, since it did not bring a significant intent of harm. This begs the question of what extent is a wrongdoing consider evil? Claudia Card offers her theory of evil. Card’s main argument of evil is that it is defined by 2 factors, one of them being evil a foreseeable intolerable harm and the other is culpable wrongdoing. She distinguishes evil from wrongdoing by stating that “nature and severity of the harms, distinguish evil from ordinary wrongs” (). I agree with this statement since not all acts that are wrong are evil demanding on the degree of harm caused. Card uses her atrocity paradigm to illustrate the differences of evil wrongdoings and ordinary wrongdoing. She illustrates that atrocities are forms of evil, but justifies that not all atrocities are evil. To illustrate, a natural disaster such as a hurricane or a tsunami be an atrocity, but not an evil. It is not justified as evil since there is no human act to create a natural disaster with the intention to create significant harm to