And the LORD God said,
Behold, the man is become as one of Us,
to know good and evil.
Genesis, 3:22
The point of this post is simple.
The difference between ‘bad’ and ‘evil’.
‘Good’ is straightforward.
It doesn’t matter – evolution wise – whether the ‘good’ has happened ‘naturally’ or ‘intentionally’.
But it makes all the difference in the world whether the ‘bad’ only happened or it was the consequence of somebody planning it to happen.
Even if that difference is visible only to us.
Conscious humans beings who use language to communicate and to consider.
Visible as well as ‘accessible’.
How many among you consider that anybody else but us, human people, is capable of ‘evil’?
And what about the perpetrators?
How many of them consider themselves to be ‘evil’? To have become evil, as they had intentionally hurt somebody?
And how come this simple ability was enough to elevate us to “one of Us” status?