Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than a particularly awful psychological disorder.
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.
Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.
If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
Who isn't fascinated by evil?
For something to be completely evil is to be nothing. Satan has good attributes - intelligence, for instance - but they are corrupted. I cannot reconcile myself emotionally to alternative understandings of evil.
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
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