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This-essay is a7812111.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %ROOTS OF EVIL 781211 The roots of evil are to be found in our conceptions of what the roots of evil are, and what the nature of evil is. Often "evil" is regarded as a "fallen" state. This image is mechanical, technical, image in which(by analogy to the behavior of physical objects in a gravitational field) the natural thing is to "fall", and the unnatural thing is to rise up. The image leads us to think of "evil" as natural, and "good" as unnatural---requiring effort, work, energy. To be "good" is to climb up out of the "valley" of evil, to the top of the mountain. To be "good" is to climb up out of the "valley" of evil, to the top of the mountain. To be "good" we must be "lifted up". This requires spiritual energy on the part of somebody--- and theories differ as to the source of that energy. Evil also gains nourishment through roots embedded in the notion that conformal behavior is "good" and nonconformal behavior is "evil"---with the "proper" choice of standards of conformity. With this conception of "evil" we must then identify "good" behavior patterns, life styles, desires, thoughts, words, ideas, etc. We must also identify "evil" behavior patterns, life styles, desires, thoughts, words, ideas, etc. The key to the "good" life is then the use of the proper system of classification. This is a technical procedure. Once the technical job of setting up classification is accomplished, further technical procedures may be used to promote "good" behavior and discourage "evil" behavior. Such technical procedures are also roots of "evil" because they all promote what is really evil: alienation, estrangement, blocked communication, excommunication, banishment, ridicule, put down's, rejection, isolation, personal indifference, wearing dishonest masks, playing dishonest games. The roots of evil are to be found in our notion that we must punish evil people for desiring and doing evil acts, and that we may become tainted with evil by listening to, being in dialogue with, being affectionate toward, or just being associated with people who have been classified as "evil". Evil flows from all our notions, presuppositions, assumptions, goals, values, ethical principles, moral standards, religious doctrines, traditional standards, and their like which blocking listening, dialogue, affection, love, and other ways in which we know each other. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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