From: ibshambat@gmail.com   
      
   The Christian idea is that evil comes from Satan. If there is such an entity   
   as Satan, it would be found in places where it is least expected and not found   
   in places where it is most expected.   
      
   Americans expect evil to come from the government. While some governments are   
   in fact tyrannical and corrupt, American government is neither. The real   
   abuses in America don’t come from the government. They come from places   
   least expected. They come    
   from entities deemed sacrosanct such as family and community – as well as of   
   course priestry itself, as we have found out recently with Catholic clergy’s   
   child molestation scandal.   
      
   The Communists expect evil to come from capitalists. The evil in Communist   
   countries did not come from capitalism; it came from the government. In that   
   situation government really was tyrannical and corrupt.  The government was   
   seen as representing the    
   will of the people and was sacrosanct for that reason. It became a much bigger   
   perpetrator than even the worst in Western capitalism.   
      
   There are some on the Left who expect evil to come from the system. Then they   
   find themselves at the mercy of entities non-affiliated with the system, such   
   as Taliban, inner city gangs and Westboro Baptists. These people get to find   
   out that there are    
   many things that can go wrong, and that the system is only one thing that can   
   malfunction. Many find this out, to their grave detriment, from experiencing   
   wrongdoing by entities unaffiliated with the system.   
      
   We see the same thing with places where evil is most expected. One such place   
   is the criminals, drug addicts and mental patients. I had interaction with the   
   preceding; I didn’t find them to be worse people than an average person.   
   There is in psychology    
   a belief that evil is caused by people with personality disorders. No; evil is   
   caused by people choosing to do the wrong thing. That is the case regardless   
   of their personality and psychology. Most people who do wrong are perfectly   
   normal. They do not    
   have a psychological problem, they have an ideological problem.   
      
   Where is evil most likely to be found? It appears that it is most likely to be   
   found in places where it is thought least likely to be found. Satan can find   
   ways to fool anyone. Adequate scrutiny is imposed on governments in Western   
   democracies, there is    
   enough attention being paid to fighting corrupt business practices, and there   
   are enough people in the system who are good enough chaps. Attention needs to   
   be paid to the least expected sources of evil such as family and community.   
   That being done,    
   family and community can become a value as wrongful practices in it are   
   corrected while the benefit of family and community is achieved. And that will   
   lead to the best possible scenario: Where people have both the rights and   
   liberties of democracy and    
   the human touch of community, and the two work together to create the best of   
   possible worlds.   
      
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