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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Well, they may have, in their own twisted ways, goals that aim to be good, and the mistakes are being committed in the methods being used.

For example, let's say they have some objective that they hold as the supreme good for mankind. Then they might say, well any means to get there are OK since they lead to goodness. They would be misguided in that "evil" would be guiding their minds to begin with and thus, make them believe that only methods they can imagine lead to said "good" goal.

They would be wrong of course because Reality does not depend on human mind in order to exist or function. As such, intellect, even the most massively overpowered such as the one I was endowed with at birth - it's destroyed by mercury poisoning now, moreso every day that goes by - can only make a puny and hugely insufficient effort at understanding Reality itself, and even moreso at guiding events toward a "supremely good" goal which one entrusts said wildly insufficient intellect at divining.

I for one, hold that humans cannot know "good" and "evil". The closest approximations one might make are, as my friend Earendil said, "life affirming" and "life negating".

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Everyone sees themselves as the good guy in their own story. That doesn't mean objectively terrible things don't exist. The road to hell is paved with good intentions after all.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed!