Do you really think Good and Evil are synonymous with Right and Wrong?

It's more synonymous if you use right and wrong to good and bad... not evil... there's gotta be more powerful word used to replace good to accompany evil like for example... Godly and Evil... that's more acceptable. but good and evil??? that just ain't right... It's okay but if you use it personally just like how you did... that just doesn't work

I agree. Good and evil are totally different from right or wrong. Right or wrong depends on situation. A good person can be right at certain times and wrong at others. Same with evil people. Sometimes they may invariably actually do some good. Its not right to make them synonymous with each other.

Hi Sam, Oh that is not right that your little nephew was treated like this I think that this word must of come out just in the heat of the moment, for I am sure that your nephew is not a devil, every one makes mistakes and does the wrong thing this is how we learn as with what we do right yes we are praised for this and it does give us more confidence in what we do, we do things wrong some times in raising our children but we have to or at least try to do the right thing by our children.

well, i think it is..is it not?hehehe one connotes the other, but bad doesnt necessarily evil too..umm.. bad and evil is something synonymous but depends on how the words were used, they can mean other things too..:) like bad, like not good but not bad which is evil.. hope youre getting the idea there!hehe but devil is already something different samrat!hehehe now, good, we say that when a person is doing something right! like it's an approval of a good work, so it means somone is doing right..but sometimes, we can put another connotation to the word, so all in all, everything depends on how we use it!:)

I had never though about it that way before. It's a very good point. I agree though being bad/naughty is definately a far stretch from being evil. I wonder how did you explain this to your nephew?

Yes i agree too.When your are doing wrong God corrects you.God is right here.Only if you have evil thoughts you do wrong.So evil means wrong.Evil can be corrected by God.So if you have done something wrong,you can correct it by doing something Right.

You should explain to your nephew the differences between doing something wrong and being a devil. We are at times, compelled to do things that we thought are right. It is by realizing that we make a mistakes make us all the more humans. Just by simply yelling at a person, spanking our kids, or doing some mischiefs doesn't mean we have horns on our head and holding a fork in one hand. Jealousy, hatred, selfishness, greedy are just some examples of pure evil heart.

No, good and Evil are not synonymous with right and wrong. They are only terms used to denote the difference. Actually Right and wrong are a step above good and evil. It is wrong to put garlic in choclate cake, not evil, thats the whole point of it. See, somethings though small like cheating in an exam or small theft of say a choclate is not evil but you will agree that it is morally not correct, it is wrong. So I would say that all wrong is not evil, but all evil is wrong. Similarly all right might not be good. When a child makes a mistake, we need to punish the kid. You might make him stand for an hour or deprive the kid from his favourite TV show, it is the punishment given to him. It is right, but might mot turn out to be good. It is very case specific. A boundary line does exists but its is quite thin and most of us forget to see and analyse it.

I agree, making a mistake doesn't really make you a bad person and sometimes, what a person thinks may be right is not necessarily good. I mean, sometimes, it's all about perspective. I mean, a really evil person might teach their children that the bad things are right, something like that...I'm getting confused. LOL. Anyways, I do agree with you.

Don't let the child feel bad about himself because it will have psychological effect in the future. It's not evil, it's just bad so don't do ot again please.

making mistakes and evil are two different things i think,

human is to err......even i heard god himself commits mistakes we must not let younger believe that whatever wrong has done is willful but he shoud whisked away with "human is to err" this does not mean evil

no bodies perfect.. we will makes something better, when we makes a mistake before..!!! practice make perfect, practice without mistake it means never to learn something...!!! (maybe) sometimes, wrong have a good means but we can,t define it..!!!

I agree that not all wrong things are evil.. It's wrong to put galic in chocolate cake, but ti's not evil unless you did it on purpose..I think the key is to let your child know that just because they made a mistake it's not the end of the world...We learn from what we do wrong.

From your first reply, viz -'Yes, I know that good and evil are entirely different but I tried to make my nephew understand that theyu are same as he will not try to make too many mistakes.' I gather that you told your nephew that good and evil ARE synonymous with right and wrong. Not a good move in my book.

I think kids should not be discouraged or criticised like this. They tend to develop negative feelings in this process and may lose their self esteem. They should always be treated politely and nicely and difference between good or bad must be told to them albeit...in a lighter manner.

I think they are not.We are people believing that holding tongue infront of children is not an important issue as they know nothing.Elders think by calling them with such approach ,they are meeting their way of correcting them.Usually they themself don't know that evil and wrong are two different as both are related to deeds but their results are different.Wrong things can be corrected but evil itself represents the label of no correction.

They are not really synonymous, but they are not altogether different either. I think it always vary with context. For example, I think it was too strong for a child to label himself evil. Or to equate an error to being evil, or even bad (especially if the mistake is unintended). Also, some wrong things are committed with the best intention. Sparing someone from being hurt at the cost of lying, for example. Or killing someone in self-defense. I think right from the start it is unsuitable to categorize everything on black and white boxes. Because really, a lot of things are on the gray areas. And it would be doing them injustice to label them as either good or bad, Godly or Evil (emphasis on capitalization intended).

You are right. A wrong thing done to protect a right thing is not a sin. In astrology we will have periods of Saturn, venus etc. Astrology says that the particular periods or Dasas in a horoscope of a person is to experience the results of any "Karma" that was done purposefully in the previous birth. That means, any "karma" done not willfully will not have such bad effect.

I think you can unthinkingly do something wrong and not be evil. We all make mistakes. I associate actual evil with malicious intentions.