> Doug Laidlaw wrote:
>> Reading Erin's troubles with the presence of evil in the world,
>> I thought that the answer given by GROW (the Australian 12-step
>> group network, started by a Catholic priest) was worth
>> repeating:

>> Most of us stopped asking that question long ago.  It stops us
>> from getting better.  It shifts the blame to God, and absolves
>> us of the responsibility of developing our characters to deal
>> with it.

>> No answer.  Just don't ask the question.  Taoism as expressed
>> in "The Tao of Poh" is full of the same theme:  Don't ask
>> unnecessary questions.  Don't waste government money on
>> research which increases knowledge with no practical
>> application.  Don't worry about "the world" being evil, because
>> the world is something you can't change.  Yourself, you can
>> change (within limits, but pessimism isn't one of them.)

>> Doug L.

> Hi Doug,

> I am inclined to follow Camus on this.  It does bother me when
> people do not follow and create happiness when they can.  But
> I know that outside the personal level, as you say, "evil" in the
> world does exist so much as a quality as indifference to
> individuals. Concepts like good and evil belong to the human
> realm, and not
> to the world itself.