Check out this animated short about evil in western civilization from Ancient Greece to the present day (if player fails to load click HERE to view). The filmmaker, who is known only as YouTube user Omaggs2000, explains it was, "intended to show what people have believed in and pointed to as evil throughout history. It was meant to get you to think about what evil really is. It is meant to show that when we get too obsessed with 'evil' we might end up taking part in it ourselves."
"One has to separate evil and human cruelty," explains Omaggs2000. "Human cruelty is people not being nice to one another. Evil is something else, it is something we have created, a word and a concept for things that are not acceptable. It is a label for things that we do not understand and don't want to understand. But is evil really ever a complete explanation for anything? A lot of bad deeds has been done in the name of good. The people that did them meant good, are they evil?"
Finally, Omaggs2000 wants you to know that the video is not meant to
- A: Blame religion for all the evil in the world.
- B: Claim that God is dead. (It is simply a reference to the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, look him up.)
- C: Offend anyone, race, religion, gender or sexual orientation.
- D: Claim that Elvis was evil.
- E: Be an exact and complete account of the actual events that has taken place throughout history.
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