Lord Voldemort, the nature of evil, and politics

[Carol]

Cabal wrote:
>
> I don't believe in evil, nothing is ever that simple.
> 
> Evil is a construct, it fits a narrative nicely, but it doesn't exist. 
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Carol responds:

both candidates, or rather, the President-elect and his former
opponent, would disagree with you.

Is it not evil to plant a suicide bomb on a retarded woman, killing
her and many innocent people around her? Is it not evil deliberately
to fly planes into buildings, using murder in a (failed) attempt to
create panic and terror? Is it not evil to use rape as a weapon (or to
commit rape under any circumstances)? Were the Nazi extermination
camps not evil?

I can think of many other instances, but these will do.

I don't think that evil is a construct, nor is it the absence of good.
It's real and powerful and it must, somehow, be curtailed though it
can never be destroyed. That's why we have laws, and why we sometimes
fight wars (World War II).

Evil in some instances may be relative and it's sometimes unavoidable,
as in the lesser of two evils.

I can't comfort Tonks because I don't know what happened behind the
scenes during the campaign, but I'm quite sure that compared with,
say, Osama bin Laden, it's pretty small stuff.

The poet Shelley believed that there are evil acts but no evil people,
only mistaken ones. I wish I could agree with him.

Carol, who *would* use the term "mistaken" for quite a few political
candidates, many of whom you've never heard of if you don't live in
Arizona