For self-defense, that’s still a feature, and not a bug. It’s generally seen as more evil to do more harm when defending yourself, and in law, defending youself with lethal force is “justifyable homicide”, it’s specifically called out as something much like an “acceptable evil”. Would it be more or less evil to cause an attacker to change their ways without harming them? Would it be more or less evil to torture an attacker before killing them?
″...by not doing all the Good...” In the model, it’s actually really intentional that “a lack of Good” is not a part of the definition of Evil, because it really isn’t the same thing. There are idiosyncracies in this model which I have not found all of yet. Thank you for pointing them out!
That makes self-defence Evil. It even makes cultivating one’s own garden Evil (by not doing all the Good that one might). And some argue that. Do you?
For self-defense, that’s still a feature, and not a bug. It’s generally seen as more evil to do more harm when defending yourself, and in law, defending youself with lethal force is “justifyable homicide”, it’s specifically called out as something much like an “acceptable evil”. Would it be more or less evil to cause an attacker to change their ways without harming them? Would it be more or less evil to torture an attacker before killing them?
″...by not doing all the Good...” In the model, it’s actually really intentional that “a lack of Good” is not a part of the definition of Evil, because it really isn’t the same thing. There are idiosyncracies in this model which I have not found all of yet. Thank you for pointing them out!