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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Agree.

Much of the last 4 years takes forethought. However malice and incompetence are often bedfellows.

Violence can be a confession of terrible incompetence. It may have started as incompetence but it has turned into a slow-roll mass murder to cover up the incompetence.

Malice and incompetence can be inextricably linked. They don't have to be mutually exclusive in order for harm to be rendered. I would argue this doesn't violate Occam's razor....or Sheftalls razor.

Often the most dangerous situation is, when people are participating in small actions that brush with evil, but don't breach it, and think they are doing "good"., i.e., the way children were treated during covid...in particular with the masks...or with the depravity being normalized at school these days.

This can be applied to myriad situations, because this type of evil has a long arc and is not easily detected by normal people...until sometimes too late.

They can not see that each brush leads, if given enough time, to a critical mass, in which the aggregate of each individual action can lead to unspeakable evil.

IMO, there is no reason evil and incompetence can't coexist. In fact evil can and has emerged as a byproduct of systems/organizations self-arranged by unthinking utter incompetence.

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Dena's avatar

It turns out it’s pretty easy to use the “safety & well-being “ of our children in order to control normal, good people to step over the line. At least now, mainly because of the COVID lockdown,mandate experience, many more are aware of the fear & manipulative tactics being used by the ignorant & evil ruling class to control every aspect of our daily lives. It’s a slow realization & impossible for most that they want to harm / kill you. Good news - Louisiana just banned WHO from controlling their state.

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MayBella82's avatar

When you open the door to evil spirits, you set yourself up for more to enter until they take over. Jesus casted out demons every where he went… just imagine how many demons people have inside them because they have not protected themselves. Those who can see the evil going on around them must have a tremendous amount within them. This is a spiritual warfare and prayer is so important.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

It's quite amazing when you think about it; that which never had to be said because everyone agreed was the obvious morally right choice, became unrecognizable - even when told directly and given examples that were unassailable prior to covid.

In fact, when you tried to point this out to people it's like it actually made the obvious more illusory - as if the common knowledge of every prior generation had never existed.

The door to evil appears appealing from the outside and is well greased so that it is silent once opened. Disturbing.

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Willing Spirit's avatar

This is so true. We must be so vigilant!

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Fager 132's avatar

Definitely, evil and incompetence often coexist. Witness the USG's record of "wars on" things, which without fail produced more of everything they were supposed to prevent: poverty, racism, crime, terrorists. And evil contains the seeds of its own destruction, because at bottom it's incapable of building or creating anything. It can only destroy. So it's often impossible to distinguish between evil and stupidity. Fortunately it's not necessary, because to oppose one is to oppose both.

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