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There are many different theories, most of which will directly or indirectly argue what makes someone morally bad. Depending on your interest, I could edit to give some examples of normative ethical theories, and hence examples of what makes an act bad and a person bad.
Dec 23, 2018 · Dismissive, insistent, impatient, resentful, revengeful – we’re not going to take it, dammit. The world owes us better than this. It’s just immoral how we’re being treated. Anyone who puts...
- We view minorities and the vulnerable as less than human. Through history humans have demonstrated a sickening willingness to inflict cruelty on one another.
- We already experience schadenfreude at the age of four. That last finding is particularly dispiriting since we often look to young children to give us hope for humankind – they are seen as the sweet and innocent ones who have yet to be corrupted by the grievances of adulthood.
- We believe in Karma – assuming that the downtrodden of the world must deserve their fate. On a related note, so strong is our inherent need to believe in a just world, we seem to have an inbuilt tendency to perceive the vulnerable and suffering as to some extent deserving their fate (an unfortunate flip-side to the Karmic idea, propagated by most religions, that the cosmos rewards those who do good – a belief that emerges in children aged just four).
- We are blinkered and dogmatic. It’s not just that we are malicious and unforgiving, we humans are worryingly close-minded too. If people were rational and open-minded, then the straightforward way to correct someone’s false beliefs would be to present them with some relevant facts.
Jan 6, 2014 · In their world, healthy shame describes the feeling of, “I have done something that goes against my core values and beliefs, and I feel bad about that,” while toxic shame describes the feeling ...
Oct 20, 2021 · October 20, 2021. In episode 274, I received a question from an individual who struggles with feelings of being a bad person. In this post, I look more deeply into the fundamentals behind this question, looking at why these thoughts may occur and what you can do to tackle them. How do you fight off feelings of being a bad person?
Sep 17, 2018 · Nature Human Behaviour - Siegel et al. describe an asymmetric Bayesian updating mechanism for moral impression formation, which shows that beliefs about badly behaved agents are more uncertain...
Such is the meaning of evil: something that risks existence or persistence. For example: it is bad to steal, because it harms someone, and such event decreases the probabilities of his survival (even stealing a peanut reduces the probabilities of survival, of course, in a very small amount).
