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Evil - being interested only in achieving your own aims regardless of their effect on others (with a side order of enjoying hurting others) - and sanity are orthogonal. Not one-dimensional.

if you say so. are you describing a personal philosophy here? i see it differently... 'sanity' is a state of cleanliness or health, according to my understanding, etymologically speaking.

so real evil can be coterminous with mental health, in your opinion?

(replaces crotch-guard)

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 09:31:05 AM EST
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I'm not sure how popular that definition of sanity would be.

In the very long term I don't see evil being an effective way of operating, but you'll have to convince a lot of people to abandon foreign policy "realism".

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Dec 2nd, 2008 at 09:50:41 AM EST
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