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 %DESTROY DEVIL PEOPLE THINGS WRITINGS BOOKS PLACES+020813
 %BUILDINGS RELIGIONS CITIES STATES GOVERNMENTS GOD+020813
 %COERCION VIOLENCE STICKS STONES ARROWS GUNS BOMBS+020813
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     Can "evil"  be destroyed through the use of coercion,
violence,  sticks, stones, arrows, guns, bombs,  missiles,
etc?     That depends upon whether "evil"  resides  within
"things"   which  can  be destroyed  through  the  use  of
coercion,  violence, sticks, stones, arrows, guns,  bombs,
missiles, etc. --- without thereby creating more evil than
existed before they were used.                            
                                                          
     Is "evil"  a "conserved quantity" like energy,  liner
momentum, angular momentum, charge, baryon number,  lepton
number, etc. in the very successful work of physicists who
describe objective processes through the use of many  such
conserved quantities.                                     
                                                          
     Is  "evil"  an expanding quantity which is constantly
increasing  in the universe,  like entropy  which  measure
the  amount  of chaos = disorder within a given volume  of
space?                                                    
                                                          
     Can "evil" be reduced/mitigated in any understandable
way?                                                      
                                                          
     Some people believe that "evil"  can and does  reside
in particular people, things, places, writings, buildings,
etc.     They often seek to destroy "evil"  by  destroying
those people,  things, places, writings,  buildings,  etc.
in  which  they  believe "evil"   resides.   Usually   the
process  of  destruction engenders  more   evil  than  was
perceived as "present within" what is destroyed.          
                                                          
     It  is  more  helpful to view evil as  an  aspect  of
dysfunctional  RELATIONSHIPS  between two or more  people.
The  "evil"   aspect   is   intimately  connected    with:
alienation,  estrangement,  misunderstanding,   ignorance,
prejudice, etc.  Might evil be destroyed by destroying the
people   who  are involved in the evil  relationships  ---
without thereby engendering  even more evil in  consequent
relationships?    Might    evil  be  transcended   through
peacemaking    and  conflict  resolution   involving   the
participants  now in the evil relationships  ---   without
thereby    engendering    more    evil    in    consequent
relationships?      Which   is   more  likely  to succeed?
What  does  the evidence of history say about the relative
probabilities of success;   especially  when  all the non-
violent-revolutions   of   liberation  of the  1980s   are
given  due  consideration ---  in light of the  fact  that
those  non-violent-revolutions liberated  the majority  of
all  humans  then alive.    See "The Powers that Be"    by
Walter Wink for more details.                             
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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