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Originally Posted by Darwyn43  I think evil is ambivalent............in that it often justifies short-term evils for long-term goods.
...... if you accept the premise that nature is a directional process toward balanced systems of cooperation and competition, first creating the cell, then the organism, then the social system -- But then, sometimes the cooperative system, while it's evolving, doesn't extend it's benefit to....
Just to be clear on where I stand on evil is good, I give a resounding "I don't like it -- but kind of." |
Thanks so much for your insightful comments here.
I do see the human as still evolving - and living out "good/evil imperatives" that will eventually bring us that place of "balanced systems of co-operation and competition". This will be the day when we turn our weapons into ploughshares" as the saying goes.
