My definition of Evil: an action taken based on an unquestioned belief.

Ergo, anyone can believe anything they want, right or wrong. However, if they take an action that is wholly based on not questioning that belief, then they are acting in an evil way.

We are often forced to take a ‘leap’ of faith when we don’t know for sure about all of our options, but there is rarely a harmful act that comes from thoughtful consideration of the need to take that action.

We live in the world. Contemporary culture is based on monetary choices and options that affect others far removed from our simple choices, but we don’t stop to question whether we should be using money in lieu of careful thought when our retirement fund manager shifts investments. We don’t consider how money acts as our proxy when we go into debt for 30 years to buy a house, promising the labors of our future self (someone we don’t really know very well) to a banker who then sells that promise on and on until our indenture is owned through several “limited liability” layers of computers and spreadsheets.

When we think about morality, the talk almost always turns to God or philosophy quoters (you know who I mean), but rarely do we look to the world around us for guidance of right and wrong. Humans have always discounted billions of years of evolution in favor of a few thousand years of divine ‘inspiration’ and egoism.

Everything in nature lives cooperatively and symbiotically, contributing more to the future than what is consumed in the immediate present. Humans base their moral decisions only on what they imagine will benefit the unquestionable anthropocentric fantasies of dead ancestors.

I may be wrong about that. Please prove it.