Khuutra on 23 May 2010
I think people get too tied up in the human element when talking about "evil". There is something that separates us from the animals, yes, but sometimes I wonder if it's anything more definitive than the ability to pile meaning on top of meaning where there may be none.
An aphid kills plants, and is enslaved and eaten by larger insects, whose corpses feed the soil that gives rise to more plants.
Where is the evil in this cycle?
What separates us so that the same cycle would be evil for us, if not in nature?
Is the aberration of the brain that makes a person unable to empathize with other lives evil? Is aberration itself evil? Is the person born with physical aberrations evil too, if he contributes to the cycle?
