What is the essence of evil, and which part of the human soul gives birth to it?
This is one of the most difficult questions for civilized man. Many of
us can recognize the results of evil intuitively: evil causes vast human
suffering; revokes our sense of human dignity; creates an ugly,
dystopian, or disharmonic world; destroys beauty and poetry; perpetuates
fear, anger, distress and terror; causes torture and bloodshed.
Nevertheless, there are always some people who seem to remain ignorant
of its presence — or, incredibly, see specific visceral atrocities as
justified and even good.
Those of us who have taken a stand for freedom over the past few years
know instinctively that a great evil has occurred. Millions of people
have lost their livelihoods, fallen into depression and committed
suicide, suffered indignities at the hands of public health authorities
and bureaucrats, died or suffered unnecessarily in hospitals or from
experimental gene therapies marketed as vaccines,
were denied the ability to say goodbye to their loved ones or celebrate
important holidays and milestones...were denied, in short, the
meaningful experiences that make us human.
To those of us who suffered directly, or who saw our highest
values suddenly dismissed and decreed expendable, we feel that evil in
our bones and we know that it is there, still hanging over our heads, as
the world keeps turning and others, incredibly, go about as if nothing
had ever happened.
But from whence does such evil come, and who is ultimately responsible
for it? This is a harder question to answer, and there is much debate
surrounding it. Is evil the result of conscious, willful intent? Or is
it a side effect of something that was originally more benign?
Should we feel compassion for people who were "just doing their job,"
and in so doing, became the tools of injustice? Should we excuse
ignorance, or cowardice? Do the perpetrators of evil generally have
"good intentions," but make honest mistakes or succumb to selfishness,
greed, habit, or blind obedience? And if this last scenario is the case,
how much lenience should we allow them, and how accountable should we
hold them to be for their actions?
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