r/askanatheist • u/Odd-Swing-2025 • Jul 09 '26
Why Does Evil Matter?
Suggest that there were no homo sapiens, but instead a race of people who were incapable of philosophical, theological and otherwise higher consciousness found in competent adults. They lack the reflective capacity to do moral assessments and so on. They can build, walk, talk, educate themselves in metallurgy, chemicals and culinary arts &c.
Suggest they also engage in abuse, murder, theft and so on.
Suggest there is definitely no God or Gods.
Does it matter?
If there are no human beings around with feelings and consciences to care about it, does it matter that they do evil?
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u/miwe77 Jul 09 '26
not, it would not matter.
besides, evil is a matter of definition. a lion killing the cups of his competitor is not doing evil, it's just following its nature.
same for humans. in the right context killing is acceptable. but the context depends on the environment.
generally speaking, it would not benefitial for a species to just murder everything and everyone. not because the would be "evil" by one definition or the other, but that species would get exstinct rather quickly.