Anyway, the answer to your question is that in the West, if a soldier kills innocent children due to an honest mistake, we are not happy at all, but we do not think he is a criminal. If he is reckless, that is bad, maybe criminal, but probably not evil.
But a man who can walk up to a child and deliberately shoot that child in the head, that man is evil.
We think Israelis can be reckless, and arrogant, and harsh, sometimes even cruel, but rarely evil.
But we think Palestinian suicide bombers and those who deliberately shoot children in the head, are evil.
The question has to do with will, free will, volition.
We do not believe that anything is "written." God/Allah/Yahweh/Jehovah/Elohim does not want us to do evil.
Human beings choose to do good or evil. If they make a mistake, that's not evil. |
