“. . .evil is ‘live’ spelt backward.

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Evil is in opposition to life…Speci cally, it has to do with…unnecessary killing, killing
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that is not required for biological survival…Evil is also that which kills spirit.
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There are various essential attributes of life – particularly human life – such
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as sentience, mobility, awareness, growth, autonomy, will.
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It is possible to kill or attempt to kill one of these attributes without actually destroying
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the body.”
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M. Scott Peck, People of the Lie All of us are capable of committing evil acts;
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for as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn noted “the line dividing good and evil cuts through the
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heart of every human being”.
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Nonetheless, two types of people are particularly prone to evil actions: psychopaths,
and malignant
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narcissists.
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The psychopath’s potential for evil is well-known, but it is the malignant narcissists who
may
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be responsible for more of the world’s evil as they outnumber the psychopaths, and as
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Peck writes in The People of the Lie:
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“It would be quite appropriate to classify evil people as constituting a speci c variant
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of the narcissistic personality disorder…psychiatrists have begun to pay increasing
attention to
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the phenomenon of narcissism, but our understanding of the subject is still in its
infancy.”
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M. Scott Peck, People of the Lie The central characteristic of narcissism is
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an in ated sense of self.
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Narcissists are overcon dent and admire themselves to a degree that is not warranted
by the reality
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of who they are, or what they have accomplished.
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The narcissist’s infatuation with a grandiose self-image leads to self-absorption,
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