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%PROBLEMS DILEMMA TRAGIC EVIL DEFINE MISLEADING WAY+020824
   %NONCONFORMIST DOMINEERING VIOLENT THOUGHTLESSLY+020824
  %RESIST REFUSE REJECTION OBEY OBEDIENCE VICTIMIZE+020824
    %VULNERABLE ISOLATED ESTRANGED HEALTHY WELLNESS+020824
 %EDUCATED HOUSED CONNECTED POWERFUL POLICE PROTECT+020824
%PRIVACY RIGHTS SEXUAL ABUSE INTIMACY TRUST RESPECT 020824
                                                          
                                                          
     There are many problems with "evil":                 
                                                          
     1.  How  we  respond  to  what  ever  we   regard  as
"evil"  depends greatly upon how we define what we mean by
"evil".                                                   
                                                          
     2.  There  are  some tragically  misleading  ways  in
which "evil" has often been defined; e.g., as having to do
with:   creative  nonconformist   individuals,   resisting
domineering  people  in  non-violent ways,    refusing  to
thoughtlessly obey domineering people, etc.               
                                                          
     3.  Evil tends  to  victimize vulnerable and isolated
people more than people who are: healthy,  well, well-fed,
well-educated,    well-housed,    well-connected, wealthy,
powerful, etc.                                            
                                                          
     4.  Vulnerable  people need more  "police-protection"
than others ---  and people who are traditionally hired to
do "police-duty"   often include among them a fair  number
of  domineering people who yield to the temptation to take
advantage of vulnerable people.                           
                                                          
     5.  Much    of    the   most    destructive    "evil"
victimizes  vulnerable  people  within  the  contexts   of
their   most intimate and private relationships  ---    so
that  "policing"  those  kinds  of  contexts entails   the
great  dangers   of empowering  the violation  of  privacy
rights  by  relatively powerful people who are willing  to
violate privacy rights.                                   
                                                          
     6.  It   is  difficult  to  define/draw   unambiguous
boundaries between the honest sharing of personal: ideals,
values,  hopes, principles, aspirations,  perceptions  and
experiences   ---    and  becoming  involved   in   sexual
intimacies  which   are  inappropriate,  unwise,  and  ARE
likely to involve abuse  and the transmission of both dis-
ease and  diseases because  of unbalanced levels of powers
on  the  part  of  those  who are moving in the  direction
premature, unwise and imprudent levels of vulnerability in
intimate relationships.                                   
                                                          
     7.  Those  people  and relationships which  are  most
"evil"   are  those which are most  skillfully  dishonest,
hidden, mis-represented, and difficult to understand.     
                                                          
     8.  Those  people who are most respected and  trusted
are  in   positions  of power where they  can  do  extreme
damage by yielding to the temptation to take advantage  of
people who are  vulnerable  to their powers,    leadership
skills  and positions-of-concentrated-power.              
                                                          
     9.  Many  gentle  people shy away from  positions  of
great  responsibility,  power and leadership ---   because
they fear that they will be blamed, shamed and guilted for
whatever  goes "wrong",   Thus many domineering fools rush
in where gentle angels fear to tread.                     
                                                          
     10.  Common  people  are more likely  to  follow  the
leadership   of   confident  leaders  who  are   sure   of
themselves:  even  when  the  chosen leaders are ignorant,
misinformed,  confused, arrogant and self-righteous people
who  engender  evil-relationships and  so  engender  evil-
people.                                                   
                                                          
     11.  Evil is does not yield graciously to traditional
scientific,  scholarly, philosophical, legislative, legal,
administrative or theological ---  detection, analysis and
management  efforts.   Evil-relationships and  evil-people
are ultimately dedicated to subverting all such detection,
analyses  and  management efforts ---  regardless  of  the
ultimate costs.                                           
                                                          
     12.  Highly  respected  evil-relationships  and evil-
people tap into concentrations of power ---  to help  them
conceal their: natures,  powers, dishonesties, deceptions,
addictions,  codependencies,  collusions, and pretentious-
life-styles.                                              
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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