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Do you think vampires are evil?
Here's how I see it; humans are evil. (I know vampires do not exist, but I like them anyway) Vampires kill humans to eat. Humans kill cows, goats, sheep, pigs to eat. If vampires are evil, then so are humans. And wolves because they ate that wild boar (or whatever they eat). And snakes for eating that mouse. And sharks for eating that fish.
Humans are a lot more evil because you don't see vampires (in ANY book {besides Nightworld, no not even that...}) raising humans for food, but you see HUMANS raising COWS and PIGS for food.
Yes, I do like animals, but humans also kill each other. Humans are destroying the pl anent. We aren't going to have any more vegetation in the future, however near that may be.
Sure, there are some evil vampys in books and movies who want to take over the world or destroy it, but there are also humans who are evil too.
So, are vampires evil?
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Okay,since this question is under the spirituality tab, I am going to mention religion. First of all, humans kill animals, because in the beginning of the world, before adam and eve came into the picture, God desgined the land and then animals, after creating humans, he gave them power over the animals so that the humans would be able to eat, this does not make them evil. Now yes you are right humans do kill each other, that doesnt make them evil, that makes their actions evil. See through all evil acts lies Satan, so where humans are acting evil or wrongly Satan is influencing them. All of us are sinners, not one of us humans is totally good or totally evil, the only one who is totally good is God, and the one who is totally evil is Satan. Vampires are not real, so to define them as evil or good is just unrealistic. They arent really good or bad, they just arent real. I think in books and movies where you read about vampires it depends on the action in which they are committing to be able to tell if they are good or evil.
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So are you saying vampires are above or the same as humans? We kill animals that are below us for food. But some humans kill other humans who are the same as them for pleasure, which would be murder. So it all depends on how you look at it. If the vampire is killing a human for pleasure it would be murder but if they're killing for food it would just be a part of the food chain.
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Razhie is right.
To further expand upon her comments:
First of all, define "evil". Also, for that matter, define "good". Evil is relative, not an absolute. And evil on what standards? Morals and ethics are man-made. Everyone has their own individual criteria for drawing the line between good and evil. Whether you think something is evil or not is your own opinion. It is what the majority (society) dictates to be supposedly "right" or "wrong", not that the majority is is always right in all cases, but that's another argument for another time.
You say that humans are evil. By that argument, you are also calling yourself evil. All organisms need to eat to survive. Are you arguing with the very basis of life? It is just the way that we organisms are created. We either eat or be eaten. The meaning of life is to reproduce and it cannot be done without involving the sacrifice of one life in order to sustain another's. Not pretty, but nothing you can do about it. Do you suggest we go against life's plan and just stop eating everything altogether so we wouldn't be given a label that we created ourselves? That would mean the destruction of all civilization.
Yeah, we are omnivorous, but that fact alone does not mean we are evil. We eat plants too. So what do you think about vegetarians and vegans? Are plants not alive? There is no hierarchy of life forms. Not one living creature is better than another. Plants are living too. You neglected to mention them. Plus, if you think about it, plants are the ones who get it the worst. They have an even lesser chance of fighting back than animals. Moreover, animals eat plants and other animals too. Does that make them evil? It's the cycle of life and has been ever since the first life form came into existence. Okay, humans raise animals to eat, but they wait for the animals to grow up first. The animals are given a life before becoming food, not that that justifies the means.
If you're wondering, no one is an expert on vampires, which are fictional. Notwithstanding, I would think that vampires would have a harder time in controlling themselves from sucking a person's blood. That's probably why they cannot "raise" humans for food. They might just drink the blood of babies from the get-go since humans have a longer lifespan and it takes too long to wait for them to grow up and mature. And just because a vampire's lifestyle requires bloodsucking does not necessarily make them evil. If they were killing just for fun, for the hell of it like it's some kind of sport instead of for food, then, that, by humanity's standards, would be considered evil.. for that matter, humans hunting for sport is not very good in itself either.
Humans are the ones who pollute the planet, true. But there are also humans trying to save it at the same time. Nothing is as black and white as it seems. No one is completely evil or completely good. There is both good AND evil in all of us. You can't make a sweeping generalization and say that everyone is the same and ALL 100% evil. Take Twilight, for example. The Cullens only drink the blood of animals and abstain from human blood because they do not feel that it is right and it is the best they can do. They only drink to have their fill. They are not gluttons who drink to excess and waste any remains. They don't feel any joy for doing so.
There are good and bad humans and vampires and there are those in-between. You keep rating everyone the lowest score of 1. What are you really asking here?
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let me rephrase the question you just asked:
" is a fictional undead monster that drinks a person's blood from them like a big sippy cup evil?" what kind of life form asks that question? yes, since we're human, and they eat us, I'd classify them as bloody fucking evil. with a disclaimer that THEY DON'T EXIST!!!!! pull your head back into reality and think to yourself "hmmm.... I just came off as a complete dingbat thats most likely a poser darkness child who wears white makeup to match the dark clothing".
and to satisfy your hunger for useless knowledge.... yes, humans are fucking evil too, I spend most of my waking hours thinking up new ways to kill people and fun things to try when I torture my next prisoner. like rip the skin off their arm and throw salt on the flesh as I fry the skin and feed it to the victim. there, off the top of my head. satisfied?
-gunner
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You are missing a few key points in this philosophical debate:
What is 'evil'? Can it every be truly evil to do what comes naturally to us an animals? Does 'evil' even exist? Or is it simply a subjective label created by humans and applied to different things based on the culture we grew up in?
What about sentience? Most people, even most vegetarians I've spoken too, believe there is a difference between killing a human being, who can think and reason and understand, then killing a mosquito or even rat. Most people agree that a human life is inherently more valuable then an animals, so where do we draw the line? Could the same arguments be used to argue that a vampires life is inherently more valuable then a humans? Or that a girls life is inherently more valuable then a boys?
Why is a what a vampire does any different then what a human being does? There is far more in common between a vampire and a human being then even a human being and a chimp. Why would vampires and humans be held to different standards of morality?
Does it really matter who is 'more evil' or 'more good' as a group? Shouldn't we judge all intelligent creatures as individuals, not as ethnic groups?
These are interesting questions with real life applications. Frankly, I'd encourage you to do some thinking and reading on the subject of Good and Evil and Consciousness, but leave the vampires out of it. The real world provides plenty of fascinating cases for how we relate to the universe and why. Fictional creatures like vampires can be used to over-simplify these issues (like saying vampires aren't destroying the planet, well, neither are unicorns or dragons, that is a pretty meaningless idea) and it doesn't make the world a better place to try and deny the fact these things are deeply complex and deal with the issues as they really exist.
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Before all these modern day stories about vampires falling in love and only eating cows and whatever there where stories about vampires preying on humans, not just eating them sucking there blood. To me that sounds pretty evil.
Also, most humans that kill other people are also frowned upon and usually considered evil.
All in all, Vampires are not real and not that I know the entire background of why the movies where created, I bet they were to originally scare people hence why they are evil.
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