Evil is a label, caused by humankind's tendency to project understandable motives onto actions which they don't comprehend.

Ironically, I think our understanding of it comes from a relatively self-centred place - we assume that someone is aware of and intends to bring about the full consequences of whatever their actions are, when in most cases they don't seem to know or care what they are.

I wouldn't say the 9/11 hijackers, for example, wanted to kill 3000 people because they wanted to destroy 3000 lives and bring grief to hundreds of thousands more, but because they thought it was the best thing to do from some sort of fucked up utilitarian standpoint.

(Please don't take this example as license to turn this into a thread about terrorism, politics, islam, the wtc or anything related. It's just the first example that came to mind.)

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