If you think evil thoughts about someone and imagine putting a piece of bread and butter outside their door just to drive their dog nuts and keep them up at night (maybe even smearing peanut butter under their doormat to keep poochie nuts after the bread is removed or eaten); but they don’t know about such a nefarious plan; and you don’t do it — are the thoughts still evil? And if not evil, at least funny?
That may be the most BRILLIANT evil plan ever. And when I type “evil”, I’m thinking “eeevyyl”- like Mike Myers would say it.
I, unfortunately, know little of “evil” as the concept seems to rely on theology. However, Russ Shafer-Landau has a nice little book called “Whatever Happened to Good and Evil” that could potentially contain the answer. Shafer-Landau is a non-theological (atheistic) Moral Realist. Going along with his fun little ethical theory, I’m going to guess that while there may be the potential for such a plan to have some sort of “evil” property, it’s probably not on the big list.
It is, however, hilarious.
[...] That is what we refer to our downstairs neighbors as. They quit keeping me up every night and started ”only” doing it once or twice a week, never on the same nights or on weekends. I keep my peanut-butter on the doormat idea in check through turning our fan up to drown out of most of their loud talking and idiotic banging around. [...]