The evil that hurts me never deceives. This pain, as I suffer it, also implies that I should react in order to get rid of it; so even my struggle against suffering comes, as a passion, from the evil I experience at the very moment in which I try to free myself from its sting, suffering. For if the first effect of evil is suffering, the second is to demand that the suffering cease at any cost and immediately. How? Suppressing their cause
For that you have to find a cause. Or, more accurately, the most urgent thing is not to find this cause, but to suppress it. To demand suppression it is not in principle necessary to identify the cause of suffering. The true, adequate and supposedly scientific knowledge of the cause does not appear frequently nor as possible nor even as desirable, while the urgency calls for an identification without delay of any interlocutor. I do not know the truth of the cause, but what does it matter, as I certainly know that I am suffering and that I can carry my sorrow to anyone else!
This cause, even though I can not identify it to annihilate it, I can already defend it as mine. Challenging the cause, perhaps unknown, of my suffering, I defend, spontaneously and immediately, my own cause. For evil, which does not appear to me but assaults me, only seeks an answer: my own aggression that seeks to suppress it of rejection. To suppress the cause of evil means to defend my case against him from the start. To all evil responds at least the desire for revenge.
The logic of evil thus unfolds its first need, arousing in me, that I suffer, the desire for another evil: to destroy the cause of the evil that destroys me, to give evil its evil, and to attack aggression; briefly, defend my own cause at any price, even before the cause of my illness is known.
