Is There a Right Answer?

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Rihanna: It seems as if haburn wants to say that people who never do harm, but are the a sadistic voyrs, imagine you spend your time on the internet looking up like snuff film. But at the same time, rih, it could be, maybe they are the third category, judging it to be evil if inflicted on them oron they're concerned about. Does that mesh with your sense of what it means to be evil, like you? Rihanna: I think if you're going to reserve the term for something, you should reserve it for people who actually act. You know, li, that's like my theory of six on of a

David and Tamler descend into the dark pits of Hell to look Satan in the eyes and discover the nature of evil. OK…that’s not fully accurate, we just read and talk about a couple of philosophy articles that analyze the concept. What are the features of evil people and acts? Does evil just mean ‘really really really really bad’ or is it categorically different in some way? Can you be evil without ever actually causing harm? Is Tony Soprano evil?

Plus we take a "moral alignment" quiz (inspired by role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons). We both want to end up as ‘chaotic good’ but does it turn out that way? And what kind of character is a unicorn?