I have to say this. That is a dichotomy. Anyways, left and right hand is very bleak as there's many compenants that make up a person's personality let alone a person. Your not just black or white, there's all kinds of tan and pale in between. As you said above.
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"Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins."
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I believe the err in thought is that if you sin once you are no longer capable of being considered a good person. Name a noble peace prize winner who hasn't "sinned"? You can't but because they've stolen a cookie from the cookie jar at age 3 is that to loom on their tomb-stone after stopping a war? Well I guess if your hyper-critical of other people than yes, but for me I assume everyone is good.
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"This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead"
For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person."
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These two quotes seem to imply that "Evil" is an innate personality trait in all human beings. I'm going to have to disagree. Why? because everything we know is learned from our experiance. Feral children aren't good or evil, they are animal, plain and simple. So this means that "evil" is taught to us from our families and friends and role-models.
I might dare to say "Evil" is egocentric. For example in America having sex with a 13 year old as an adult its punishible by federal prison time(thank god) including being listed as a sex offender. However in Thailand(if I got this wrong forgive me) it's common place for 13 year olds to be prostitutes. In that culture it is not some evil wrong doing, but in our culture it very much so is. So whats evil and whats not? The church used to tell us, now the news men do, and other biased political figures.
I do agree that these evil wrong doings will ruin a person though. If the sin/crime comitted does harm to another being, that alone can ruin a good person.
thats enough quote dissection for right now. Nice quotes though Grieves I had fun thinking about them.
I'm not sure what there is to really discuss here... You gave us a some links and told us what something is. What did you want us to discuss center?