Neanderpundit

Pursuant to the posted short story, as part of a several hour long conversation with Pascal yesterday, and a briefer one with Mr Porretto earlier today, I’m going to posit that the Nature of Evil is threefold:

1: Evil can cause suffering
2: Evil can enjoy witnessing suffering
3: Evil can profit from suffering

Yes, yes I know, non evil things can cause suffering like cancer yadda yadda. Don’t come here with semantic bullshit, I don’t want to hear it.

I have tried and tried to find a circumstance where this litmus test does not apply, and cannot find one.

For a person to be evil, they must meet one or more of the qualifications above. Discuss.

Update: Pursuant to an IM from reader Mike, yes, playing thje accordion IS evil, because it fulfils all three segments of the litmus test. Fortunately, it’s a minor evil. No, it’s not an altogether new kind of evil.

Hit the range, put a few rounds through Ma bell.

Scope needs shimmed, before I can do anything serious with it. Need to do that and go back in a week, I think. Out of adjustment in that direction.

On the other hand, I took out the K31, and my first shot, at 100 yards, was in the 2″ ten ring.

The guy across the bench whistled, and I handed it to him. He chambered a round, and put a shot in the 1″ ten ring on HIS target. He wrote down the info on the K31 as he left,a nd says he’ll be ordering one come monday.

Sweet rifles. I love mine. Kim Du Toit asked me once, “If you could have only one rifle, what would it be?”

Having shot everything from 300 win mag to 500 nitro express to 17/223 wildcats, I can safely say, without equivocation, I like this rifle enough that if I had to give up all but one, this would be the one.

Lets hope it never comes to that.

meanwhile? I haven’t felt this good in- well, forever, it seems.