Evil Is Not the Opposite of Good, It Is the Opposite of Truth

[johnnypapa]

Evil is not exclusively the absence of good. It is a distortion, corruption, and falsification. Evil functions not simply as a void but as a perverse mimicry: it counterfeits the good, while at the same time denying the truth of what is.

Evil Is Not the Opposite of Good, It Is the Opposite of Truth - Catholic Exchange

Our common-sense moral imagination often assumes that there are two opposite forces in the world: good and evil, locked in perpetual conflict, like twin

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[Bob Crowley]

In the moral sense, it also incorporates hatred. On occasion I've seen what I think were demonic faces on people, and something that seems to come through even more than evil is a sense of hatred.

I've never been a fan of the "absence of good" as the whole explanation for evil.

Hatred involves the will, not a mere absence of a moral quality.