"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
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After your description Wolf, everyone here in ROFF has some evil in them.

Well, the mere possession of any of those characteristics doesn't
necessarily make one evil. Being a victim of Hansen's disease (leprosy),
for example, is generally conceded these days to be simply a physical
affliction, the result of bacterial infection, rather than a manifestation
of an inherent character defect or God's disfavor. Even the entire
inventory could leave one somewhat short of evil. Consider the case of a
child who is, through no fault of his or her own, dull-witted, cowardly,
short, illiterate, neurotic, indecorous, stinky, flatulent, indecisive,
pimply, piebald, mangy, leprous, scabrous, bespectacled, and illegitimate.
It will come as no surprise that he or she will not be very popular at
school (or even at home) and that he or she might, as a result, acquire
the rest of the list by a natural (if rather unfortunate) process of
accretion over a period of years. By now, a decidedly sour outlook on
life is to be expected. Even so, one can struggle to control or manage
what can now be seen as symptoms rather than inherent flaws......one can
be bellicose in disposition but never act on a warlike impulse. No
action, no evil.

In fact, that last bit is the key to the whole thing. Unfortunately,
simple truths are the hardest to sell, and finding evil wherever one
wishes to is still the easiest route to justifying wholesale consignment
to mass graves......well, assuming that one can be bothered to bury the
dead.

Wolfgang
who, in fairness, is only occasionally flatulent.


I meant evil as irascibility.
-tom