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   From: tanghuyen@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/15/2016 10:08 AM, noname wrote:   
      
   > Siddhis are not done by the individual through some   
   > power the individual has accumulated, they are   
   > not-done by the individual and done by the world   
   > because it is necessary.  It's a fine line, and easy to   
   > think that what one's egoic self demands is what is   
   > necessary.   
      
   This is my line of reasoning about the great mass murderers   
   being of some service to humanity. As I often say, great mass   
   murderers like Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and recently, Pol Pot, are   
   good, perhaps involuntarily, in helping to keep human   
   population within earthly sustainability. Such population   
   reduction is natural amongst some animals, like lemmings.   
      
   To borrow from your felicitous wording: yuge mass murder to   
   the scale of the above tyrants is not done only by said   
   individuals through some powers the individuals have   
   accumulated (though that is true), it is not-done by the   
   individuals and done by the world because it is necessary.   
   Such individuals are evil, but not entirely evil, as they   
   contribute some good to humanity, in the above purview.   
      
   Tang Huyen   
      
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