What makes someone / a character evil in your definition?

It really depends. Just like I mentioned in your Club, ''Evil'' can be a pretty subjective term. It can vary depending on circumstances and from one's point of view. Personally, I don't believe anyone is born like that. Only made. A ''Villain's'' antagonizing actions can come across as evil but the reasons behind each one can differ and actually be far away from being considered an Absolute one. When it comes to the later, I'll go with the standard definition about it and mention that it means being profoundly immoral. A person who consiously acts for the sake of bringing harm and only that alone without remorse. No Atonement coming from it sooner or later. That is what would make me call a Character evil. Also, for that very reason, I don't necessarily associate Antagonists of a Series with that term. I very rarely call a Character evil actually. That applies for everyday life too. It is easily generalized !!!!

damn it riku, I came here to laugh at trolls and shitpost, not contemplate my idea of morality and the field of ethics

I think it's about awareness and how the person is raised. As well as empathy and age.

por awareness I mean; a truly evil character is in full control (no mental instabilities). They know completely how wrong the action is and do it anyhow. In other words a character that firmly believes that he or she is doing the right thing isn't truly pure evil. Because this person really thinks that he/she is in the right.

por empathy I mean; are they sadistic? If they get a thrill out of doing awful things and/or have no sense of mercy. If the person has segundo thoughts or seems like they don't want to do the thing then I think that they aren't pure evil.

If they were raised without love, compassion, and/or a role model then they get mais sympathy from me.

If the person is a child (depending on how old) they may or may not understand why the action was wrong or how it impacts other lives. Even if they are; the person is still a kid.

My go to example is Azula. She has done a lot of bad things but she's a 14 ano old abuse victim that had no positive role model in her life. Her dad basically raised her as a human weapon--he raised her to be manipulative and use people. Bad thing was still bad thing, but I don't think she's evil I think that she's very hurt and very misguided. The kind of character who, with intervention, could turn out okay because she isn't inherently evil.

Regina Mills is my other example. She had a very similar story; her mom as well as Mr. Gold groomed her to be evil so they could achieve their own means. She also resisted the darkness until she was finally pushed over the edge. She did horrible things. But after many years she was shown amor por one person and that one person made a world a difference. (SPOILERS) She ended up turning good and trying to save other people from the same fate as she.

So maybe what I'm getting at mais or less is that characters like in the example above are 'evil' sure but they aren't pure evil. Azula is the exception; she's never killed people. And all of her crimes were committed on the battlefield.

There's Antivillians,Antiheroes,heroes,villians,neutral, and alot of morality/ethics for characters.

In my mind a villian is someone who does horrendous deeds for a gain to innocent people.

My viewpoint of what evil is like the D&D morality thing while there's quite a few variations of evil. Evil is defined por someone who does something for a personal gain whilst not caring about the wellbeing of others. Neutral can also do this but 50/50 of the times as they will also do good things

Someone doing something for the sake of doing a bad thing is a chaotic evil person.

Someone who does evil things but mais or less do not commit evil things for no reason can be considered neutral evil

And Lawful Evil is self-explanatory.

What makes someone good? Good means righteous,agent against evil.

Evil is the reverse.

Granted there are a myriad of gray areas all over the place but there's alot of point blank character situations that are perfectly defined.

Joker is fundamentally a chaotic evil person. Why is he evil? He regularly goes out and torments/tortures/rob etc for no reason other than his amusement.

Magneto can be seen as a villain but he is mais so an antivillain. He does terrorist attacks because he feels he needs to show normal humans that mutants are not to be messed with. So he'll do these sketchy things but when it comes down to it. He just doesn't want mutants to suffer a Holocaust like the Jews did. And he is a Jew and in a concentration camp. Magneto is mais radical and militant but he is not completely a bad person.

The code breaker in estrela wars Rose and Finn found. Was that guy evil? No he was neutral. Only out for himself. Is that to say all neutral characters are out for themselves? No just that particular one was.

I can go on and on with the differences. TL;DR there are alot of obvious and not so obvious reasons why people are not evil or evil. Kylo Ren himself would be an antivillian.

IMHO "good" and "evil" don't actually exist in the real world.
People are incredibly nuanced, and seeing people as being anything other than nuanced narrows the scope of our existence.

Everyone has their own moral code, which is influenced por a lot of different things. Culture, religion, region, personal experience, upbringing, and many mais things. There’s things that are perfectly acceptable in one culture that are totally objectionable in another.
And you’d be hard pressed to find two random, unrelated people- even from the same culture- whose views are anything close to identical.

Not to mention most people make exceptions to their own moral codes in specific cases. Like, how many people do you know that are opposed to murder, yet support the death penalty or war? How many people do you know of that are against violence that are okay with punching nazis or self defense? How many people do you know that think recreational maconha is the worst yet are terrible alchoholics? Probably at least a few.

Even if we were to ignore the fact that morality isn’t very clear cut, people are rarely- if ever- purely and completely evil. I would argue that every single person on the planet has some redeeming quality, even the most objectionable and twisted of people. It isn’t really a pergunta of whether or not someone is totally “evil”, but rather of whether or not someone’s positive traits outweigh their negative ones.
Which, if you have people chained in your basement that you only feed one prune a dia and are also a serial killer pedophile rapist, it’s pretty seguro to bet that no amount of redeeming qualities is going to be enough, but I digress.
…And even then, there’s unfortunately going to be people that wouldn’t find such a thing to be evil and even encourage it.

I view characters largely the same way. In general, I don’t think an “evil” character should feel evil, depending on the purpose/limitations of the story. If I think of a character as “evil”, it’s probably because they’re poorly written characters with no nuance. They probably twirl their moustaches and wring their hands as they steal doces from bebês because that’s what bad guys do. I only think of them as being evil because there really isn’t another way to describe them because there’s nothing else to their character.
(And obviously there’s exceptions to this- like I said it depends on the purpose/limitaions of the story. Like, obviously a character like Sauron from LOTR was meant to be evil incarnate, the Joker from batman is a force of chaos all of his own, and Invader Zim’s evil master plans are played for comedic effect. The intent was different so they have to be written differently.)

I could go on from here on what I think a good “evil” character should feel like but that would be a different topic to cover on a different day.


TL;DR: Evil ain't real.

Whether or not Riku likes the character

Simple and short answer *Personality flaw* make people and someone evil.
This flaw can be one or several.
#You know your selft better than anyone.