Talk:Bad

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This page is part of WikiProject Disambiguation, an attempt to structure and organize all disambiguation pages on Wikipedia. If you wish to help, you can edit the page attached to this talk page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.

This article was nominated for deletion on 21 December 2006. The result of the discussion was delete and replace with disambiguation page.

By a scientific standard, there is no such thing as a bad person, in the context of evil. Science more often studies human flaws as pathology, psychopathology or sociopathology. As a term of art, bad refers to those believed to be bad or otherwise classified as bad by the subjective standard of a group or an individual.

Individuals and cultures tend to describe events in terms of good or bad, but there is no factual basis for the concepts except in comparison to a subjective standard. In nature, a "bad apple" fertilizes the soil while planting a seed. In a fruit basket, one bad apple can spoil the bunch. Bad describes events that do not meet a person's preferences. But what one person does not prefer, another does. Events or actions that may be seen as very bad by one group might be evidence of a great good to others.

Some spiritual traditions advise against codifying human preferences, though warnings prescribed in religous documents are not always incorporated in the doctrines of religous sects. Christianity and Judaism, for example, feature in their leading texts explicit warnings against dualistic moral codes.

"You may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden except the

Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. You must not touch that tree". From "Genisis, Chapter 3," in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.

By whose "scientific standard"? This kind of pop relativism is intrinically POV, and hardly a matter of "science" in any case. Smerdis of Tlön 15:06, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Why?

There should not be an article on the concept of bad. Because the term bad is so highly subjective and familiar, an article about it could never be informative.

Oh God I don't know what bad means! I better go on Wikipedia and search for it to see what it is! Come on, seriously the only person searching for the word 'bad' on wikipedia would be an absolute retard. This is so irrelevant.Debaser23 10:14, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Ditto! Je pense donc je suis 21:13, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

You know what i think!!! boys have bad taste when it comes to girls!! as my im icon states girls are like apples on a tree! the good ones are at the top!! Boys reach for the ones at the bottom because thier scared of falling and getting hurt!!!!!! And i am at th top so none of the boys are reaching for me!!!!!

[edit] Deletion?

"Bad" should be in the dictionary not the encyclopedia. If it is going to be in the encyclopedia, wouldn't the title "Badness" really describe what this article is about. Well anyway the concept of "bad" or "badness" is so broad that an article on it is not appropriate.