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• Thursday, January 8, 2009 10:11 AM

  Good vs Evil

  It's not an original thought to look at all this unlawful or unethical behavior -- torture, illegal wiretapping, war on drugs, Israeli attacks on Palestinians -- through the authoritarian lens of good vs. evil. I think this is even a subject in one of Glenn's books. It is interesting, though disheartening, to see it continuously played out -- one sees it in the world and in Glenn's comment section every day.

  The intent of laws is to codify the battle of good vs evil. If good gets caught up in the laws, the laws will be modified and the good shall not be prosecuted. The good make mistakes, but cannot do evil. By definition, their acts are good. War is not war, torture is not torture.

  The whole purpose of life for the authoritarian is to determine who is evil and to destroy evil.

  The great concession authoritarian's made in the late 1700s was Freedom. But Freedom is not a legal concept. Freedom is the right to be presumed good.

  If you are ever against "good," however, especially as represented by America and Christianity, you are evil. Drug-use, socialism, liberal-ness, homosexuality, brown skin, non-Christians, homelessness, anti-war beliefs, etc., are evil. Once you are in the evil camp, it is very difficult to get out. There's no serving your time, there's no forgiveness. (Unless, for some, they become "born-again.")

  Finally, there is no evil that can be perpetrated against evil; it's all good.

  —karr(sic) Read karr(sic)'s other letters
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