the evil

[juldea]

I figured it out, and it scares me.

I was thinking about religious fundimentalists and those who seek to impose restrictions on other's life choices..
And isn't it better to have the choice to be good or bad and choose good, than to live a good life because that's all that's available to you?
Following down this path will lead to people raised in ignorance of the fact that they could, theoretically, choose evil. Ignorant of evil at all, even.
...and then it hit me.
What is that state but the state of the Garden of Eden before the original sin?
This is what people want? People in power? How immensely frightening.

...because, you see, I don't at all consider eating from the Tree of Knowledge to have been a bad thing.

Comments

[crimson5.livejournal.com]

Alot of those people don't really understand where thier goals are taking them. They can only focus on the here and now. There's lesson I learned from an RPG a long time ago. Basically, if you force virtue, it ceases to be a virtue. Perhaps the best example from that game, is one of the towns required you to donate half of your gold to charity. At swordpoint. Being forced to give, defeats the concept of charity. Perhaps the other viewpoint they fail to consider, is balance. It's possible for a society to become to good, and in the process destroy things that are good, but just have failed to keep up with the new distorted standards. To reuse the above example, imagine if everyone gave half thier income to charity, willingly. It would be considered evil to only give a fourth. Find me a person who donates a quarter of thier income to charity, and I'll show you me attempting to convince them to donate to the make Crimson5 rich fund. ;)
Zealots are a bad thing. I don't care what religion or beliefs they follow.