A dark question I have pondered is the simple concept of stupidity versus evil.

And the dark truth has revealed itself: Accidental stupidity is more wicked than deliberate malice.

Because a person who makes an informed choice can at least be held truly accountable. Only a grinning fool covered in the blood of the innocent can shrug and feel no guilt or remorse. This fool knows not what he does, thus we suffer.

While a person who has an objective, either good or evil, can at least personally understand that they made the choice themselves, and can be punished or rewarded for it accordingly, man to man. At least when we accuse them, they cannot deny it or blame someone else. They will take responsibility. They knew what they did.

In other words, I would more respect a man who slaughtered and says "Yes I did!" than a man who slaughtered and says "Was just following orders!"

One man has a mind and will. The other ....is nothing but either a feral beast, or some sort of vessel for an entity that DOES have a mind and will. And the act of being merely a vessel for evil is indeed much worse; for a true being chooses their destiny and their place in reality.

And those who did not choose, yet still took action, are mere monsters wearing human flesh, with no real mind of their own. Thus we suffer.

Memetic viruses walk this Earth unopposed. Words with meaning and purpose. The true world is not words. There is no word; there is no law. But humans sometimes hear these words and obey mere ideas, moreso than true reality.

Thus the reason Monckton's law can hold true: Words hold no truth. Words never had anything to do with truth. The connection between mere words and truth does not exist. Only the truth is true. Only reality is real. Ideas are not. Words are pure fiction by necessity and the true fact that words can be composed in any order to create ideas that are more or less the truth, but not the actual truth, is the reasoning why we cannot trust words alone. A description of an object is not the true object. And the thoughts or words of a person are not necessarily the actions of that person.

Other humans are not nearly as much our enemy as memetic viruses are, which although crafted by humans, surely must have some mind or will of their own. Thus we suffer. Thus we suffer. Thus we suffer.