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You Are Under No Obligation To Meet Evil Halfway

7/24/2019

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Evil will never meet you halfway, but insists you are morally obligated to meet it halfway. Evil will never accept any of your points, arguments, and beliefs, but demands you accept some of its points, arguments, and beliefs. Evil will ask for concessions without ever offering any in return. With Evil, it's all take and no give.

Those who believe negotiating with Evil will restore some sort of harmony or resolve a timeless chasm are ignorant, arrogant, and foolish. 


Evil does not need you to go all the way to achieve its aims. Halfway is more than enough for Evil because halfway represents a willingness to mediate and mitigate, and this willingness reveals you no longer see Evil for what it truly is, but rather for what it is not. 

Here's the trick - Evil urges you to compromise so that you may be compromised. 

Evil knocked at the door. You answered, invited it in, and made the necessary accommodations. Don't be surprised when Evil decides to stay long after you have firmly asked it to leave. On the other hand, you might grow fond of your little houseguest and ask it to remain with you forever. 


Strange things tend to happen when you are fooled into believing you have some sort of moral obligation to seek reconciliation with the irreconcilable.  
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bruce charlton
7/25/2019 12:42:44

Good insight. In the bureaucracies where I worked, this was how it happened. A top-down change was suggested which has bad intentions, and always one that increased managerial monitoring and control. Change was never ever rejected, but sometimes a compromise was made so that it was 'only' partly implemented. This change always increased the power of management, increased the degree of corruption by evil; so that resistance became weaker for the next cycle of bad-motivated changes. Year by year the system was subverted, then inverted.

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Francis Berger
7/26/2019 14:46:18

Thank you for the great example you provided in your comment, Bruce. It specifically details the kind of thing I addressed here.

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william wildblood
7/26/2019 13:11:37

You're on great run at the moment, Francis, with a very interesting selection of posts. I don't think people in Western Europe really appreciate the extent to which they were protected from Muslim invasion by people in the eastern part of the continent, especially Hungary.

But I really wanted to comment on your last two posts which highlight the subtle tactics of evil splendidly. Much of Christianity, in particular the Church of England, has succumbed to precisely the process you mention.

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Francis Berger
7/26/2019 14:40:41

Thank you, William. I have been thinking about the nature of evil and the various ways it operates quite a bit lately. I am happy some of my thoughts resonate with you.

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