Living with Evil

Evil is something we created ourselves, no other being has the foggiest notion of what it is.

"Yes," you will say "But we also created Good." True enough. You cannot have one without the other.

Things got interesting when we created our many technologies, and tried to decide if they were Good or Evil. We could say they were either Good or Evil. depending on how they were used. But we were suspicious of such an easy answer and inclined to look deeper.

This was true of what we refer to as Industrialization, that had huge benefits and huge problems. Taken as a whole, was this Good or Bad? It was hard to say, but Industrial wars were bad enough to make us wonder. Especially when they were linked with Religion.

Most people gave up thinking about this, which created a new phenomenon: people who could not think, or distinguish Good from Evil.

Our latest technology, the Computer, and its Software resolved this problem because it was easy to create Evil Software, and the Evil People to go with it.

We were forced to consider Ethics and all its implications.