{"id":1402,"date":"2007-03-25T19:57:26","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T00:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2007-03-26T22:37:38","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T03:37:38","slug":"the-nature-of-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1402","title":{"rendered":"The nature of evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;m going to posit that the Nature of Evil is threefold:<\/p>\n<p>1: Evil can cause suffering<br \/>\n2: Evil can enjoy witnessing suffering<br \/>\n3: Evil can profit from suffering<\/p>\n<p>Yes, yes I know, non evil things can cause suffering like cancer yadda yadda. Don&#8217;t come here with semantic bullshit, I don&#8217;t want to hear it. <\/p>\n<p>I have tried and tried to find a circumstance where this litmus test does not apply, and cannot find one.<\/p>\n<p>For a person to be evil, they must meet one or more of the qualifications above. Discuss. <\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s a minor evil. No, it&#8217;s not an altogether new kind of evil. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}