"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
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"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.

My mistake......I thought you meant evil as beets or unwaxed dental floss.

Wolfgang