Thermodynamics of Evil

If “good” is defined as whatever encourages integrity – then whatever pulls it apart is evil.

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Here we see a connection between group structural integrity, stability, and what we might call the development of evil. Furthermore, as many have intuited through observation, these connected interactions are a cold yet inherent part of the natural process. A point in case is South African naturalist Lyall Watson, author of the 1997 book: ‘Dark Nature – A Natural History of Evil’. At an early age, through direct study of Zulu and Kung Bushmen, Watson noted the cold precision of predator-killings, interanimal cruelty, and infanticide. From this base, Watson derives the notion that evil involves overstepping bounds or going beyond due measure; where at the heart of evil, as he states, are influences that destroy the integrity of the whole. Here, we refer to this as Type 2 Evil such that going beyond due measure correlates to going beyond the threshold point of maximal structure stability.

"Because of the human craving for stability, especially on the part of those who are in power and who benefit most from the existing order, nothing will give way in the fabric of existing institutions until the strife and discontent build beyond some threshold. The people do not rise up in revolution until their discontent becomes so great that they have no other recourse".

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