Re: Lethality of events

In message <20070510235937.Y8436@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, John Morrow
<morrow@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Thu, 10 May 2007, Ben Finney wrote:
>> The megalomaniacal mastermind, the manipulative schemer, the righteous
>> holy man -- none of them are necessarily greedy or thuggish, and any
>> of them can be ****trayed such that we perceive them as evil.
>
>I don't see a any of those being necessarily evil if they are not also 
>casually murderous or cruel.

There's a difference between having no moral qualms about killing and
cruelty if it seems necessary; preferring murder and cruelty as tools
to an end; and indeed enjoying murder and cruelty.

The thug is the latter, the others above may be any of the three.