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So, to explore what evil is, here are a few excerpts from Ayn Rand's work.
“The Objectivist Ethics" in The Virtue of Selfishness:
"Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that nameless act which all of you practice, but struggle never to admit: the act of blanking out, the willful suspension of one’s consciousness, the refusal to think—not blindness, but the refusal to see; not ignorance, but the refusal to know. It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment—on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict 'It is.' "
Galt's speech in Atlas Shrugged:
"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."
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"I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it."
Too often we "unconsciously" find ourselves living our lives according to the ABNORMAL because it sucks us in. Look around you and you'll see it happening everywhere. And we accept it and live by it. Be it ignorantly or unconsciously- people are nevertheless willing to serve evil. There should be no excuse. Live your life according to the NORM. That is what there is. Evil is impotent. "Whenever evil wins, it is only by default..."
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