Evil

Blizzard's Diablo: the mythical embodiment of EVIL.

What is Evil? Evil is not, as the followers of Jehovah would have us believe, a force in itself; driven by deity with horns and goat's legs. There is no God and no Devil remember.

Evil is nothing more than a nasty form of selfishness; the determination to get what you want no matter the pain you cause to others. Compare this with simple selfishness where you just pursue what you want.

Consider people guilty of terrible crimes who have famously been decried as Evil.

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was a visionary; deluded and wrong-headed, but a visionary nevertheless. He believed that killing millions of Jews, invading neighbours and waging war against other nations would bring happiness to the Germanic peoples.

He was not doing the will of the Devil, he was merely following a misguided racist ideology to its lunatic conclusion. What made him evil was that he was willing to hurt millions of people to achieve his goals.

Alphonse Capone

Here is the quintessence of evil on the urban stage. The mind set is simple: I want it, you've got it, I'm gonna take it off you. It's called stealing and is the basis of all organised criminal activity.

This is evil in its most stark aspect; to knowingly and deliberately cause pain to achieve gain, in the most direct way possible.

The Marquis de Sade

Here pain is inflicted to cause pleasure. Such action is acceptable if both parties wish it and both enjoy it.

To inflict pain upon an unwilling victim to gratify some twisted sexual urge however is unacceptable.

Cigarette Companies

Here is evil on the grand commercial scale. This is the kind of thing that is killing the civilisation of Arda.

To knowingly cause the suffering and death of millions, for the sake of pure financial gain is EVIL at the highest level. To say that it is legal is beside the point: It is EVIL.

The crime here is greater than Hitler's extermination of the Jews in terms of numbers dead and yet is not regarded as such because of the PR and legal work of these companies, as well as the prevailing capitalist view of Western civilisation that anything that makes money is good. WELL IT ISN'T!

In rational terms the CEOs of these companies should be treated as criminals at the level of Hitler and Stalin.

Part of the problem with Evil on the grand scale is that the commanders don't actually carry out the crime themselves, they order others to do their dirty work. They may not even see the pain they cause, insulated in their carpeted offices. But they must be made to see! And the blood shall be on their hands!

Soldier involved in an unwarranted Massacre

The man that shot the defenceless people even though he knew it was wrong, claims that he was "only following orders".

Well stop! The Church of Infinite Dimensions preaches a doctrine of Self-Reliance and Self-Responsibility. There will be no buck-passing in this Church. If you are commanded to commit evil you shall not do it! Even if it means that you will be court-martialled and shot, this is better than murdering the innocent for no good reason.

The thinking behind this is perhaps the most common and insidious form of evil: "Even though I did it I am innocent because I was forced to do it".

Commonly this happens in one's employment, whether it is telling lies to the customer to sell something, or polluting the land because "there's nowhere else to put it", or contributing to global warming because "I have to drive my car".

It's all evil. You are causing pain to others in order to get your own desires.

Why is Evil wrong?

Such action is unacceptable because it requires contempt for the aga of others. It means putting yourself above others. We can't all put ourselves above others or we wind up in a horrible rat race where we all get hurt, most of us are stood on, and many at the bottom just suffocate and die.

This Church preaches respect for all Ura. All Ura are eternal, infinite and deserve your respect. You don't know how important an agu may be in another Shoku. And no matter how important you think you are in Orithia you don't know how small and irrelevant you may be in the other infinite Shoka.

In the final analysis, disrespect for another Uru is disrespect for your own.

By all means pursue your goals, but not at the expense of the happiness of others.