The Real Problem Of Evil Is Thinking Evil's A Real Problem

The Real Problem of Evil is Thinking Evil's a Real Problem

The idea that people can be completely evil and have no redeeming qualities, extenuating circumstances, or core humanity at all … That is the only place where true evil lies. The belief that some people are “evil” makes it easier for us to write them off, dehumanize them, destroy them, cease helping them. The idea of evil makes misbegotten moral righteousness possible, and justifies all manner of aggressive and hateful acts.

Sociopathy and antisocial personality disorder are just a repackaging of the age-old concept of pure unredeemable evil. It’s morality-driven dehumanization dressed in a clinical psychologist’s coat.

It is comforting to believe that people commit heinous acts because they are henious monsterous people. Such thinking protects us from wondering if we are capable of committing evil acts, if we are hateful and destructive. It also implies that ending suffering in the world is not a matter of slowly and constant reforming all our hearts and minds; it’s simply a matter of finding all the bad eggs and scrambling them.

The concept of sociopathic evil absolves us from doing the hard work of reforming criminals, remedying the precursors to crime, and examining the morality of our own actions. It is much easier to cast off the malicious as evil, disordered, defective, inhuman, exceptional, than it is to turn such a critical gaze upon ourselves.

By accepting the idea that “some people are just evil”, we resign ourselves to an overly simplified worldview where wrongs cannot be prevented, only punished, and where there is no broader societal responsibility for the sins of society’s children.

hey losers! picture this!

your fave is thinking about you. they can’t help it … they’re trying to think of something else, but you’re really all they can think about.

their heart is racing, blood running to their cheeks. they clutch their chest, run their hands across their faces, laugh nervously … they’re short of breath, they can’t stop thinking about you.

they picture you, your smile, your laugh. they picture you next to them, holding them, squeezing their hand … kissing them? they hide their face in their hands, in embarrassment, but they can’t help but smile.

gosh, they love you so much.

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from-the-choirgirl-hotel-blog

5 years ago

*opens a can of Sprite*

Here’s to all the self shippers who have F/O’s-platonical, familial or romantic-who got done dirty and fucked over by their creators.

May we all treat our F/O’s a billion times better then their own pathetic excuse of creators

Attention all Fictosexuals/Romantics

You are loved.

You are valid.

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from-the-choirgirl-hotel-blog

5 years ago

For those of you who think that their paras or daydreams are cringy and are a bit ashamed of sharing things about them, please don’t.

Our paras, paracosms and daydreams are primarily for ourselves, they don’t have to appeal to anyone else.

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from-the-choirgirl-hotel-blog

5 years ago

Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love (1981).

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from-the-choirgirl-hotel-blog

5 years ago

OMG PLEASE REBLOG THIS IF YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE NEVER TOO OLD TO GO TRICK OR TREATING AND THAT IT IS FOR EVERYBODY OF ANY AGE

PLEASE I NEED TO PROVE THIS THING TO MY MOM

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from-the-choirgirl-hotel-blog

5 years ago

Hey real quick: kintypes are you.

If you have a kinlist with a lot of kintypes that you relate to or you connect to rather than those things being you, then you may want to look into otherhearted/fictionhearted or synpaths.

Another quick note: being otherhearted is not “lesser otherkin”. It’s just a different experience that some people have and can be as important in a person as a kintype.

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