1. This is basically my definition. It is the abstract one, which makes very little assumpions about one's values. 2. This is the core of the _human_implementation_ of my definition. Though not precisely correct from a philosophical standpoint, it is more usable in everyday life. 3. Your call. 4. A different version of definition 2.
There's a reason that multiple definitions are given. None of them is necessarily wrong; which one you use is the one that suits best. IMHO, in this situation - where one's values aren't quite as solid as in everyday life - using 2 or 4 is a false generalisation.
1. This is basically my definition. It is the abstract one, which makes very little assumpions about one's values.
2. This is the core of the _human_implementation_ of my definition. Though not precisely correct from a philosophical standpoint, it is more usable in everyday life.
3. Your call.
4. A different version of definition 2.
There's a reason that multiple definitions are given. None of them is necessarily wrong; which one you use is the one that suits best. IMHO, in this situation - where one's values aren't quite as solid as in everyday life - using 2 or 4 is a false generalisation.
Because 'evil' is very very viewpoint dependant. There is no such thing as a Universal Evil; evil is just something like 'conflicting with MY values to degree X'. Based on this definition, 'pure evil' could be something like 'a person/group/whatever whose deepest values conflict with my deepest values to degree X'.
For instance, slaughtering farmers is only considered very evil by us because we have the value 'life is good' as one of our deepest beliefs. To someone who does not share this belief, however, the Forsaken are not evil.
For the totally paranoid, take the suspect drive out and put it into a cleanroom machine.
Bad idea. If the rootkit is sophisticated enough to infect the BIOS, what keeps it from flashing the HDD firmware as well? The HDD firmware could actually reinfect the BIOS in the clean machine.
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1. This is basically my definition. It is the abstract one, which makes very little assumpions about one's values.
2. This is the core of the _human_implementation_ of my definition. Though not precisely correct from a philosophical standpoint, it is more usable in everyday life.
3. Your call.
4. A different version of definition 2.
There's a reason that multiple definitions are given. None of them is necessarily wrong; which one you use is the one that suits best. IMHO, in this situation - where one's values aren't quite as solid as in everyday life - using 2 or 4 is a false generalisation.
1. This is basically my definition. It is the abstract one, which makes very little assumpions about one's values. 2. This is the core of the _human_implementation_ of my definition. Though not precisely correct from a philosophical standpoint, it is more usable in everyday life. 3. Your call. 4. A different version of definition 2. There's a reason that multiple definitions are given. None of them is necessarily wrong; which one you use is the one that suits best. IMHO, in this situation - where one's values aren't quite as solid as in everyday life - using 2 or 4 is a false generalisation.
Because 'evil' is very very viewpoint dependant. There is no such thing as a Universal Evil; evil is just something like 'conflicting with MY values to degree X'. Based on this definition, 'pure evil' could be something like 'a person/group/whatever whose deepest values conflict with my deepest values to degree X'.
For instance, slaughtering farmers is only considered very evil by us because we have the value 'life is good' as one of our deepest beliefs. To someone who does not share this belief, however, the Forsaken are not evil.
For the totally paranoid, take the suspect drive out and put it into a cleanroom machine.
Bad idea. If the rootkit is sophisticated enough to infect the BIOS, what keeps it from flashing the HDD firmware as well? The HDD firmware could actually reinfect the BIOS in the clean machine.
+4 Funny? Actually, i think this is very true. +4 Interesting here.