Essay On Good Vs Evil

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Evil is the experience of suffering, misery and death. Chaotic evil exists where there are no morals. In today’s world, our morals are defined to a large extent by religion. The battle between good versus evil goes back to the creation of the world. In religious cases, it goes beyond that. In our society, evil takes a different form each day. It could manifest itself in an individual robbing a store for purposes known only to it or in the massacre of thousands of lives by a group whose staunch faith in their religion leads them to commit such violence justifying their moral atrocities. The latter I believe to be the chaotic evil that has the most impact in our society today.
Catholicism heavily influenced Flannery O’Conner, the writer of A Good Man Is Hard To Find, as she once wrote in a
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In the august of this year, an Islamist extremist group called ISIS released a YouTube video showing the decapitation of a US journalist, missing in Syria since 2012. ISIS remains notorious for its killings of dozens and people, crucifixion and carrying out mass executions. It’s extremely difficult to fathom how such chaotic evil exists and guides humans to commit such acts of genocide. Moral codes cannot define such actions, then again they still are the sole roots of this type of evil. People who kill in the name of religion have their morals consumed by chaotic evil. Their justification of right and wrong happens to be different from the rest of the world because their consciousness stays dead.
Chaotic evil does not let you become aware of your own consciousness much alike the Misfit, who justifies his actions by his undeveloped philosophies and his, remarks such as “the crimes don’t matter”. The moral code of the Grandmother falls apart the moment it’s challenged by the Misfit. In a world that encompasses different societies, each with their own morals and codes, chaotic evil remains its textbook

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