Why wicked people "look" wicked?

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Sometimes you can identify wicked people just by looking at their faces! Why is this so?
 
I guess a certain percentage of the population needs to look like a Disney villain. But on the contrary, many serial killers, like Ted Bundy or Paul Bernardo were attractive and charismatic, which played to their advantage.
 
Perhaps these “wicked” people are making face at you? lol. I kind of know what you mean sometimes, but I don’t think it’s really about looks. it’s about atittude.
 
WesleyF said:
Sometimes you can identify wicked people just by looking at their faces! Why is this so?
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Well, I can tell you that I once saw “evil” in the face of a Jehovah’s Witness who came to my door. But I didn’t see the “evil” until he started denying the divinity of Jesus Christ. Then I could clearly see that his face had twisted.

But before that, he looked normal.

Judge not by appearances, but by right judgment.
 
thistle said:
Frankly, that is a ridiculous statement to make!
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Not really. A life of sin and degradation does take its toll, and this often shows in a person’s outward appearance. If you work in the criminal courts, you get practiced at spotting people who have either been in the system or soon will be. I have noticed that people who don’t have that kind of experience don’t always pick up on the signs.
 
I thought Satan was the most beautiful of the Angels?

And I remember with Cardinal Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI. Everyone said he looked evil, and look how great of a man he is.
 
Victorious said:
Not really. A life of sin and degradation does take its toll, and this often shows in a person’s outward appearance. If you work in the criminal courts, you get practiced at spotting people who have either been in the system or soon will be. I have noticed that people who don’t have that kind of experience don’t always pick up on the signs.
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And how would such an outward appearance differ from a person who is poor, had a hard life and is homeless. Do you classify them as evil looking.

There is no definition of evil looking. To assume a person is evil by their outward appearance is not only stupid but very un-Christian!
 
thistle said:
And how would such an outward appearance differ from a person who is poor, had a hard life and is homeless. Do you classify them as evil looking.

There is no definition of evil looking. To assume a person is evil by their outward appearance is not only stupid but very un-Christian!
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Absolutely right - the real evil is the ignorance that leads people to those false conclusions. I’ve been affected by unfounded appearance-based character judgments all my life, with profound impacts on my work and personal life (I have a severely receding chin, suggesting weakness and sexual inadequacy), yet I’ve also been guilty of making such judgments myself.
 
You can tell certain things from outward appearance. Gothic people of today, for example, and their use of black clothing/accessories. Gothic people are not intrinsically evil, though, since they could be invincibally ignorant.
 
fulbert4605 said:
You can tell certain things from outward appearance. Gothic people of today, for example, and their use of black clothing/accessories. Gothic people are not intrinsically evil, though, since they could be invincibally ignorant.
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I was thinking of inherent physical qualities like facial characteristics, rather than things like clothing that are chosen by the individual.
 
thistle said:
And how would such an outward appearance differ from a person who is poor, had a hard life and is homeless. Do you classify them as evil looking.

There is no definition of evil looking. To assume a person is evil by their outward appearance is not only stupid but very un-Christian!
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There is a difference between making assumptions and making deductions based on the evidence in front of you and on experience. And there is a difference between judging the state of a person’s soul and deducing the activities they have spent a large part of their life engaging in by how they present. Like it or not, a dissipated lifestyle does leave its marks. Just look at any person who is emaciated, losing teeth, and looks 20 years older than he really is because he is a long-term methamphetamine addict.

I bet two things. One, that you are willing to believe that virtue may be stamped on a person’s outward appearance. Two, that you make decisions on a daily basis whether or not to associate with people based on their outward appearance. If you came across somebody with a shaved head, lots of piercings, tattoos on his neck and face, baggy clothes, a hardness in his features and a general devil-may-care attitude, I bet you’d turn around and head in another direction. If you were an employer, and that person came to you looking for a job, I bet you wouldn’t hire him, particularly if he’d have to deal with the public. And you’d be right. This is neither stupid nor un-Christian. It’s a prudent regard for the evidence in front of you.
 
Victorious said:
There is a difference between making assumptions and making deductions based on the evidence in front of you and on experience. And there is a difference between judging the state of a person’s soul and deducing the activities they have spent a large part of their life engaging in by how they present. Like it or not, a dissipated lifestyle does leave its marks. Just look at any person who is emaciated, losing teeth, and looks 20 years older than he really is because he is a long-term methamphetamine addict.

I bet two things. One, that you are willing to believe that virtue may be stamped on a person’s outward appearance. Two, that you make decisions on a daily basis whether or not to associate with people based on their outward appearance. If you came across somebody with a shaved head, lots of piercings, tattoos on his neck and face, baggy clothes, a hardness in his features and a general devil-may-care attitude, I bet you’d turn around and head in another direction. If you were an employer, and that person came to you looking for a job, I bet you wouldn’t hire him, particularly if he’d have to deal with the public. And you’d be right. This is neither stupid nor un-Christian. It’s a prudent regard for the evidence in front of you.
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Well you lose your bet. You are wrong on both counts.
I do NOT judge, make assumptions or decisions based on the outward appearance of a person.
To do so would certainly be stupid and un-Christian.
 
I once believed a guy’s story because he looked so typical of the “bad guy” stereotype. This was in the school library after public hours and he was telling me in broken English that he was here to pick a girl up because it was raining and asked me to unlock the door for him so he could look for her. He had tattoos and all the typical clothing of a tough guy you would see in the movies as a villian. I was a little hesitant and called the security guard in a way that was no offensive by explaining that the guard had the key and could take him around because I could not.

However, after talking to him I believed his story since if a guy really wanted to get in and do something stupid, he was not going to dress like that and certainly wasn’t going to stick around when I said I was getting the security guard to help him. He could have just appeared like everyone else and walked in unnoticed or tell me he forgot his id or some story. Basically, because it was too sterotypically obvious, I knew he had to be an alright guy though his choice words in Enlglish were quite poor “I’m here to pick up some girl.”

Turns out the guy was married and their family was renting out one of their rooms to this girl so he was just being nice and picking her up because it was raining so hard. So, to answer your question, no, I don’t think anyone is just purely wicked by looks, and as has been previously stated, it can be quite the opposite.
 
thistle said:
Well you lose your bet. You are wrong on both counts.
I do NOT judge, make assumptions or decisions based on the outward appearance of a person.
To do so would certainly be stupid and un-Christian.
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Yeah…right.
 
Demonically posessed people have dead looking eyes perhaps showing the evil within, after all the eyes are meant to be the windows to your soul!
Unless someone has a satanic symbol tatooed to their forehead, its probably best not to make preconcieved judgements.

Peace and love 👍
 
Victorious said:
There is a difference between making assumptions and making deductions based on the evidence in front of you and on experience. And there is a difference between judging the state of a person’s soul and deducing the activities they have spent a large part of their life engaging in by how they present. Like it or not, a dissipated lifestyle does leave its marks. Just look at any person who is emaciated, losing teeth, and looks 20 years older than he really is because he is a long-term methamphetamine addict.
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This is still not sufficient enough to judge a person based on his or her appearance. You may make a hypothesis but not a conclusion. Take me for instance. I dress like a gangster (apparently that’s what they call it when you have a preference for baggy cargoes and hoodies). However, I am no hip-hop fan and I actually subscribe to the subculture of Asian geeks. Another instance, you may see me in the library reading about saints and apparitions. You may think, “How good of this young man to read about devotion and holiness.” However, were you somehow capable of mind-reading, you’d find yourself proven very, very wrong for the only reason why I read such things is so as to study the rhetoric in order to emulate it, and then put it in my own story for contrasting with other world views (and a bit of parodying on the side, not in any sacrilegious manner but mere lighthearted humor at how “out there” some saints tend to be).

You can only guess from appearance. To base your final judgment and (ultimately) how you behave and treat other people on something as unestablished as a guess will only invite misery in your interactions with other people (if other people don’t find you a jerk already).
 
I think there are times when you can discern evil in a person by their look. I once walked into my patient’s room, a gang member who had been shot, and a man was standing there, and the look he gave me was pure evil and gave me the chills. He was also high. It was the look in his eyes that frightened me. And the fact was confirmed by the threat of bodily harm to those taking care of the gang member if he died.

And I have seen this look in others in a chemically-altered state. I do not mess with these people. I recognize that look and who exactly is behind it. Not in everybody who appears to be high, but definitely in some.

But as to the average guy on the street who dresses a little bit different, or has a milllion tattoos or body piercings, or unusual facial characteristics, no I don’t think they can be judged by their looks.
 
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