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Anybody that conscientiously goes against society.Immoral
The negative prefix im- connects with moral soon after the formation of unmoral. Immoral describes a person or behavior that conscientiously goes against accepted morals—that is, the proper ideas and beliefs about how to behave in a way that is considered right and good by the majority of people. Immoral connotes the intent of evilness or wrongdoing, and it is a true antonym of moral.
Amoral:
The dictionary definition of amoral is "having or showing no concern about whether behavior is morally right or wrong"—compendiously, "without morals." For example, an infant, unlearned in what is right and wrong, is amoral; someone who lacks the mental ability to understand right or wrong due to illness might be described as amoral.
These are illustrative examples, however; amoral can be used to describe any person, or his or her actions, who is aware of what is right and wrong but does wrong anyway and responds indifferently about it.
Is there any argument other than semantics that applies to the definition of words?arguing about semantics of "immoral" vs. "amoral"
Because the two concepts are similar, but the devil is in the details.How can you be so close, yet so far.
The only character that would apply to is the Bat in that case, all the other characters do what they do because they enjoy it with intentionality. Again, Ling Lan did not beat the shit out of random dojos out of necessity or because "she felt she HAD to", but because she enjoyed it. By your own definition, this unnecessary display of evil is not amoral, but immoral.Immoral denotes a decision of evil, doing what is wrong without a care for what happens. Where as Amoral is the typical, I am doing this to survive mentality, they know its wrong, but they also feel they HAVE to do it, for whatever reason. In essence, I did something wrong, I know it was wrong, but I had to do it.
I agree that this is one type of immoral person, but it's not the only type. Knowingly choosing to do evil with no sense of necessity is evil, most of the cast were not forced to do evil to survive bar the Bat.Immoral is, I am doing this not because of the benefit to me, or because it helps me, but because I want to do what is wrong for the sake of doing wrong. Truly immoral people are crazy rare, and it is a misuse of language to label them as such, its as bad as calling someone a psycho because they act out, it MIGHT describe them, but most of the time its just a way to dismiss there actions.