Terry EagletonEvil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.
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Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile. Sometimes a person can do something that is not good, but it doesn't mean they are evil. We all have the ability to do many things. Some of us may choose to do them, and some of us may choose not to do them.
In this quote, Hanlon stated that it is okay to be evil as long as you are not doing it for scientific reasons. The reason he said this was because science has been used to explain many things that were once thought to be evil. Science has been used to explain away all kinds of behavior, from actions of people who commit murder, to children who steal candy from a store.
He believed that science was not the only way of explaining things and therefore he could accept evil as long as you were not doing it for 'scientific' reasons.
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