Can we subdue Evil by Another Evil

Actually, yes. You can subdue evil with another evil. It's sketchy, but it can and does work. The problem, these two evils might eventually team up together and do something crazy against everyone else. Think Hitler and Stalin.

There is a dutch saying: If you don't want to hear it you have to feel it. I doubt if civilization is marching forwards. Is it civilisation to watch others die? To turn into an other direction if someone is in need? All this cursing, all these fights, all these wars. Is this what we call civilisation? Those who are raised like me always being friendly, kind, helpful, attentive, full of understanding and love(mostly the raise of women all over the world) will find out sooner or later they just attract abusers. It's abosolutely not true that those who do good things will be rewarded, that they will meet the same people and receive kindness and love as they give. The so called civilisation is not civilisation at all. It's still a hard world. It's survival of the fittest. The fittest are those who don't care about other people their feelings. Who don't care to steal from other or abuse them. If you raise a kid you will punish it when it's doing things you don't find acceptable. Why? Because this is the way to show and teach a lesson. If we do that with kids how come we don't do that with adults? How come so many adults are afraid to say what they think. Why wait for someone to change into a better person if you know he will never do so? Because he always been that way. Why change if other people accept your bad behaviour? Isn't accepted the way to tell others that it's okay what you are doing? In my eyes there is nothing wrong with an eye for an eye and a tooth for an tooth. Many people will only understand how their victim feels if the same thing is happening to them.

Quite a question. However, one must qualify the terms of "evil against evil." For instance, a thorn is not, of itself, evil. It's simply a growth on a plant that's there to protect the plant, so it can be called "good" in this instance. Removing the thorn with another thorn is a simple act of self protection. In society, when an element which is hurtful is removed from the place which it has damaged, that's an act of self protection, too. Thus, when a murderer or child molester is imprisoned, he is removed from the place which he has damaged. So which is good? Allowing something to do bad things, or removing that something? That civilization is marching towards refinement of culture has yet to be proven. At the core of our beings, we're all uncivilized creatures.

Interesting discussion. I must say that way too many people do their best to avoid Drama. They don't realize that Drama usually is where the Learning is at. We sure do not want to avoid learning. If we sit by and ignore evil, aren't we saying that the evil is OK??? Now, we should never do that.

I begun a discussion inspired by you! But not the silence part, the revenge subject wich is almost the opposite because instad of not acting on something evil that is done to us revenge can make us be as wrong as the attacker was. Great discussion! Yes, it takes so much courage to just be silent. Cause people might thing that we are cowards or something, the ego claims that we react to defend our honor...but sometimes be in silence, take all in, knowing when it's not worthed to even discuss is so important, but it takes so much patience and maturity to make us be able to do that. Great topic. I absolutely love good and bad actions' type of discussion.

To my mind, i endorse the philosophy of dealing with bad men. As you said, with the development of civilization and economy, human being is not as upright as he was. Thus, we need to deter immoral activities at the beginning of it through harsh punishment. Take Chinese corrupt officer for example, thousands of officers go abroad to escape the penalty of the law every year. Can you imagine the picture if the government alleviate the punishiment to them? In a word, as the time is different, we need a different antidote to our problems.