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Great message and it never gets old or irrelevant because human nature never changes.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” … Edmund Burke
I thought of this quote as I was thinking about good vs evil. Started me mulling about what is the evil that good men should defeat. So many terms of evil are thrown around these days that the concept has become weakened, I fear, while at the same time we seem to have become far more accepting of the “necesary evils” as norms.
I like the definition from Proverbs provided in the OP. And I think this one phrase covers it all ….
So do I. There’s alot covered in those short phrases in Proverbs. Part of overcoming something is calling/knowing it by its true name and too much of what is passing for politics, justice, etc. now is wickedness at its core plain and simple. The refusal to call it for what it is — gloss over it or propagate/perpetuate it as something innocuous — also wicked.
Indeed. ‘Wicked’ is a good word.
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I swear if I hear one more person say “But it’s for our SAFETY!” I will scream. How do they not see it?
An advantage of staying locked down at home: I’ve never heard anyone say that. No telling what I’d do if I did hear it, though.
I mostly see it on my local NextDoor, which I keep vowing not to read. This week’s fighting is because they want to reopen the community pool, and those who favor it because we’re ruining summer for the kids are met with sanctimony and derision. For instance:
Let’s just say I did not comment in that dumpster fire. Just please let this be OVER.