>>>> 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.

>> The word, itself, includes the human realm.

> You mean people are evil?  The thing is sometimes
> they are evil and sometimes they are good, and much
> depends on their circumstances.  But when it comes
> to choice, that's where the real dual nature man comes
> out: to bomb or not to bomb, that is the question, for example.