18. The question of good and the evil.

The problem of good and evil is handled by religion, philosophy, psychology and social sciences. In a very generic way, good can be defined as everything that attracts us, inducing exalted emotions, what we wish to imitate or make remembered. Evil is everything opposed to the good, receiving negative evaluation, and what in our opinion should not exist. Evil includes suffering, diseases, destruction, injustice, oppression, and death.

        We accept good as a natural thing and evil as unnatural. Evil is a problem which people have been trying to understand since the earliest ages. The elusiveness of this problem for the human mind can be illustrated by the fact that different judgments about evil are as numerous as the world’s religions and philosophic schools. There can be physical and moral good. Evil can also be classified as physical and moral.