What Evil Is

 

What is evil? As I have written many times, we cannot precisely define what this eternal, supernatural force is, because what is metaphysically eternal, supernatural and a consciousness of much higher intelligence than human understanding, transcends human capacity to produce conceptualization and language that can be utilized to give more than an adequate definition of what evil is, but I will try again.

 

What is evil is closely linked to what is hateful. When we hate ourselves, we become angry, bitter, resentful and we loath ourselves, and are so unhappy, so envious, so lacking in self-regard. We need to attack ourselves and others. If we do not follow God, self-realize or individual-live, there is no way we can earn self-esteem requisite to transforming into a person of optimism, happiness, and good will, that cares for God, others, the self, and the world.

 

Evil in human nature may be natural or shaped by milieu, or the Devil may be invited in by the failed agent’s free choice.

 

To be evil and act evil is a mode of living in the world, and it is a conscious orientation for the agent that does hateful things by intention or as an unintended consequence.

 

If the agent’s conscious willful plan and behavior is to inflict needless pain, suffering and loss upon himself or others, loss up to and including murder, he is a morally sick puppy.

 

To harm others, creatures in nature, an angel from heaven, or nature itself is to offend the Good Spirits and that is a mighty dangerous road to travel along.

 

There can be no evil that is culpable or blameworthy unless the agent is wicked of his own free will, an autonomous, intelligent being. In him, his character, his will, his soul, and his actions, evil exists, and he can become so rotten that he is actually evil itself, roaming the earth like a lion devouring people.

 

One contradiction that I recognize here is that evil is in nature more than good is in nature, and good is in the city, or the artificial human centers of population, more than evil is where humans are concentrated.

 

This cautionary about nature being evil should warn off radical environmentalists with their anti-fossil fuel, politically tainted ideology from being so radical, so pro-nature and so anti-human. Evil Spirits are the spiritual force behind Marxism and radical environmentalism.

 

Still, life is complex and humans in the city go from being good to living wicked lives, and Hoffer warned over 40 years ago about humans conquering nature outside and then their inner nature overwhelms them in the city at the same time. These issues are always complex, and it is difficult to know if one is good and doing the right thing or not. We must always remain humble and modest about absolute assertion that our ideological preference is the one, truth faith.