I would rather go to hell alone, knowing I was fully responsible for all my thoughts and actions. I won’t be able to live with myself in hell, if it so happens that I looked around me and saw a friend or several people who came alone with me to hell as a result of believing in what I believed in. Or that I convinced then knowingly or knowingly to follow the path I did; the path that finally landed me in hell.
Evil is something inconceivably negative that just happens. It could be a ruinous misjudgment on the part of an actor that resulted in a terribly damaging act. Or a fatal faux pas committed by someone who thought he was right while taking the decision to act. It goes that Evil is energy on the move in the form of an act.
Some see Evil in Death. Or Death as Evil, because Death is incomprehensible. However, while this is so in many instances, a deeper or serene contemplation throws another argument; to a piece of raw diamond, fire is a manifestation of Evil—it burns and hurts. Yet a piece of glittering diamond that survived the tumultuous temperament of a burning furnace might hold a contrary view upon seeing its reflection under the mirror of sunlight.
Eve & Adam Theory
In giving Adam the lethal Apple to eat, was Eve Evil? Was the Act Evil? Was the Act and Eve both Evil or was Eve innocent and it could be postulated that she had merely committed an ignorant act that resulted in Evil?
From the entire Adam and Eve hypothesis, it seems that Evil could also manifest through a superior intelligence acting on a lesser one. For the lesser one, an act of Evil committed while under the influence of the superior one could have been motivated by misplaced faith and/or betrayed trust in the superior intelligence. For the superior intelligence, it is usually a plan-come-true. Hence in the final act of Evil, the actor/executor might have been used by a superior intelligence that nurses a careful plan.
Another hypothesis could be drawn from the crime world; a smart criminal would usually pull the strings from behind the shadows— ready to pounce and grab his trophy at the final hour in the case of success, or bolt in the case of a fiasco and in so doing sacrifice the-often-innocent middle-man on the at-times blind and merciless alter of human justice.
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