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We're Failing the Children
[AccordingToHoyt] And by "we" I mean writers and parents and teachers, and anyone who is supposed to give them an idea of how the world works.

By "children" I mean those of us who were children in the last 50, maybe the last 70 years, and although the problem is most prevalent in America, it has ‐ like most things ‐ spread from America to the rest of the world.

We’re failing our children by denying the existence of evil, or even of dysfunction with no reason other than because it exists.

...Because everything man or child or woman or possibly cat does that is evil must mean he’s either traumatized or something is wrong at the organic level.
Of course there are exceptions: White men are more evil than Zionists who are the most evil there is (logic is racist!)
...Humans aren’t born angelic and perfect. Evil doesn’t grow in a soul as a result of trauma. No human being is free of evil impulses and desires, ever.

Evil, so far as it admits to a generalized definition, is unrestrained power: personal, national, global.

Evil is doing what you want to do with no restraint, and no thought for others. And it is the tendency of every human to do so, until he/she runs into obstacles and pain enough that he/she realizes the rest of the world has a vote. (On the pain, yes, you can do time outs, or, worse, verbal rants that hurt enough to make the kids stop anti-social behavior. I always thought a quick smack when they’re young enough to respond to negative stimulus is less cruel, in the end.)

...Evil exists. No matter how much you have been sinned against, there is no excuse to indulge in it. And yeah, no matter if you’ve never experienced trauma, evil is there. The creature in the space behind your eyes wants unlimited power and control. Everyone does. It needs no explanation. It just needs to be acknowledged as being there, as needing to be curbed and kept under control.
Hoyt does have a knack of reducing issues to fundamentals - I guess that's why she's such a good SF author.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-03-17
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