DW8, Chapter 3 Wrote:"One key identifying characteristic of evil is that itMy opinion of Donald Trump has worsened over the last week.
sees other living creatures — sentient beings or not — as
things to use, abuse, and discard in order to achieve its
goals. Empathy is alien to it; it has no care for the feelings
of other beings except when it delights in their manipulation.
An evil person may have exceptions to this general perception,
but that's all they are — exceptions. Uncommon cases somehow
special and different from the vast bulk of humanity...."Evil — true Evil — is very often convinced it is
Good or acting for the good of others. It is, in fact, far
more certain that it is Good than Good is — and that's how you
can often tell the difference. Good doubts itself and the means
it uses to accomplish its goals — it's a necessary mechanism
that keeps it Good. Evil never doubts itself, its motives or
its methods. It deludes itself, or lets itself be easily deluded
by others, that it is always in the right, and that whatever
action it chooses to take can be justified by its goals or its
ideology. It is always convinced that what it does is Good. Of
course, it usually redefines 'Good' to mean whatever it wants."
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