Sometimes my brain needs a little time to chew on a thought before it comes to a conclusion. I knew there was more to what I had written in my last blog - and here it is.
Evil is subjective, yes, but I think you'll be hard-pressed to find any Pagan or Free-thinker that wouldn't agree with this: true evil is forcing another human being to suppress their natural tendencies and free will.
Say, for instance, your son is left-handed, but that just really freaks you out. You force him to write with his right hand, eat with his right hand, color, brush his teeth, hit a baseball, all with his right hand. You even go so far as to tie his left arm behind him so he can't use it at all.
It's been a while back, but I remember reading some studies done years ago on left-handed kids that were forced to use only their right hands, and the scientists doing these studies learned some interesting things (for the record, I'm left-handed). Turns out a lot of those kids had problems with anger, social interaction, clumsiness, poor test scores, stuff that seemed random if you looked at each child individually, but when they started paying more attention to it, they started seeing correlations between forcing a child to go against their natural tendencies and all these other problems they were having later on.
Yeah - think about that for a minute.
What other natural tendencies can you think of that "well-intentioned" people have tried to force others to give up? And just who is it that's trying to force others to bend to their will? Hmm.....
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