It is always growth when you see evil in yourself. It did not suddenly come into being: it was always there. It is your awareness which has evolved.
And we are moved to anger when we see the evil in others. This is appropriate. But at the same time, I feel this anger stems from a fear we have that it lies in us too.
And we are moved to anger when we see the evil in others. This is appropriate. But at the same time, I feel this anger stems from a fear we have that it lies in us too.
I think it is appropriate at this primitive level of existence to punish evil, because fear remains an important source of social order, but it is never necessary for good people to hate evil.
This is a subtle point. It is EASY to say that being nice is a solution to everything. This is delusional. Evil in others spreads, takes hold, and creates fear, pain, sorrow, and death. It must sometimes be fought body to body, death to death. Wars can have a moral purpose.
The goal is to transcend this need, not to ignore it, not to fail to feed the good because of fear of our own evil, which we cloak in an abysmal “niceness”. Fuck niceness: do what is right.