My Brother's Keeper Identity

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Identity Of Evil “Am I my brother’s keeper?” these words said by Cain (Adam and Eve’s older son) when he killed his younger brother Abel. To the scripturally minded these words would resonate through billions of years as the typical backdoor confession of guilt, claiming ignorance and deflecting responsibility. “Why should I know or care? That other person is his own man and no problem of my own.” It’s an ancient story of murder, but it’s also an early story detailing the roots of evil. We deprive ourselves of our personal responsibility for those around us, especially when we know they are in trouble, whether we’re to blame or not. Implied in the story is the fact that we are our brother’s keeper, or at least we’re called upon to account for the wellbeing of those around us. Sin and evil? We often get lost in the doctrine of original sin. This is a …show more content…

Not feeling guilty but actually the opposite, they make sure they are sneaky and never get caught, they enjoy killing or harming the other person, they feel the right to possess anything and self obsessed. Evil people are guilt free, they don’t easily feel that disappointment deep inside instead they courageously face their wrong deeds with a very like innocent feeling. Montresor as an example from The Cask Of Amontillado, he was very confident about his crime that he did when he killed Fortunato, it says at the end that “[His] heart grew sick- on account of the dampness of the catacombs” (page 769). Meaning that he doesn't feel sorry and it’s not his fault, instead he blames it on the dampness of the surroundings. It's like what Cain exactly did the very first thing which is denying the action and blaming it on others or make up any excuse to get us out of suspicions. And Devin supports this saying “[Evil people] rationalize their actions through excuses…….. They are unable to take responsibility for their actions……” (The Search for Wisdom, page

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