Lesson #6: On Evil

What is evil but the perversion of good? You moderns don’t know the least about evil. You picture a horned demon that tempts other people to steal, kill and destroy. When you read the newspapers about how a 8 year-old Chinese girl was lured, raped, killed, and dumped in a wooded area, you shake your head and say, “What is this world coming to?” And you think that it could never happen to you, or the ones you love, because it is too sick.

What you don’t know is that evil is simply the other face of good. Evil does not exist as a real being. Contrary to what you, you and you think (or may not think), I am not evil personified! I cannot exist without the existence of good; I cannot tempt where good intentions do not abound; I am merely Ms Nomer's evil twin. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, as they say.

Why does a mother abort a baby? Because she doesn’t have enough money to give the baby a good life. Why does a security guard storm into his wife’s office, shoot her and then himself? Because he is too heart-broken from his unreciprocated love. Why does a woman throw a 4 year-old toddler out from the 6th floor? Because the toddler is the child of her lover who cheated her money and her feelings. Why does the scientist want to make a clone of a human? So that we don’t have to die from leukemia or heart attacks or cancer anymore.

Remember this when you are the most self-righteous – evil is in your heart. That is why Ms Nomer would have made a lousy lawyer. She would not be able to talk to the tax dodger, the thief, the cheat, the murderer, the drug pusher, the bully, the liar, or the adulterer without seeing her own heart reflected there.

Your good queen,
Anthrope