{"id":14613,"date":"2024-01-15T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=14613"},"modified":"2024-02-22T17:59:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T17:59:41","slug":"does-evil-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/morality\/does-evil-exist","title":{"rendered":"Does Evil Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Spoiler alert: It doesn\u2019t \u2014 except within interpretation. There, in most cases, it\u2019s mutual.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The one (individual, organization, people) seen as Evil doesn\u2019t usually see himself as such. Instead, he sees the other as such.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Evil\u2019 also as in geopolitics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Axis of Evil, the war on terrorism, on drugs, or just any war\u2026 just take your pick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, too, the \u2018evil ones\u2019 generally see themselves not as such. The evilness lies in the interpretations (and projections). This becomes more apparent when looking at the general picture from a UFO-view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be avoided is any simplistic interpretation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is, seen from an abstract viewpoint: we Good \u2014 they Evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main problem is that simple interpretations attract many people through easy messages, whereby it doesn\u2019t matter so much concretely what is good or evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once you try to bring some complexity into this, you can encounter a surprising degree of inner resistance<\/a>. Attempting to counter this usually only makes matters worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this setting, friendliness is a risk.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A generally friendly attitude then becomes seen as a weakness, if not badness itself. Evil-seers are quite Manichean: things being white or black \u2014 if not easily good then bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If one acts friendly, then one is not altogether seen as being straightforwardly against badness \u2014 therefore, this may be seen as badness by itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, rampant <\/strong>inner dissociation<\/strong><\/a> makes this harsher.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a bad case, \u2018friendly\u2019 thus even becomes a hallmark of what is to be avoided. What comes out of this is a whirlpool of more of the same dissociation, Eigenangst<\/a>, and aggression or depression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Us, the Good ones\u2019 is in most cases an idea to be avoided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main reason for this is that it hinders the broad view.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, from a narrow view, it can make people worse \u2014 much <\/em>worse! We are talking here about indifference, discrimination, and war. We are talking about any addiction that lies about a promise of meaningful depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Precisely the narrow view hinders the broad view. Thus, countering it with itself only heightens it. Countering it with its opposite also only heightens it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, \u2018countering\u2019 doesn\u2019t work.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As written in other blogs, even if change doesn\u2019t work, growth still does<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even more, it has always been the only thing that works. One needs to \u2018grow out of evil.\u2019 Fortunately, that is very well possible. I hope the future will bring lots of that, from people\u2019s childhood onward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huge challenge: Artificial Intelligence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is probably the biggest challenge for humankind ever, in many ways: we versus it, it versus us, we versus ourselves in context of it, and \u2013 who knows, some time \u2013 it versus it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is an existential need for Compassionate A.I.<\/a><\/p>\n

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