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Re:FBI uses drones inside U.S. for spying, director says by sanderjd on Thursday June 20, 2013 @07:53PM (#5915675)
It seems to me that "evil" is such a poorly defined word that any argument that depends on a particular definition will fail to compel anyone who doesn't already see things the way you do. All the turnkey tyranny and righteous shortsightedness seems like a (perhaps fairly banal) type of evil to me, but it really just comes down to using different definitions of the same word.
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Re:FBI uses drones inside U.S. for spying, director says by iguana on Thursday June 20, 2013 @09:00PM (#5915880)
Evil is a very poor word to use outside of some sort of metaphysical sense or fairy tale.

I think the use of the word "evil" to describe the actions of our well meaning but thoroughly righteous and shortsighted government is counterproductive. If evil exists outside of fairy tales, it does so inside of us. All of us.

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Re:FBI uses drones inside U.S. for spying, director says by PavlovsCat on Thursday June 20, 2013 @09:35PM (#5915996)
If evil exists outside of fairy tales, it does so inside of us. All of us.

Yes, and? You seem to think you're making quite the profound point.

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