[bvw]

Brilliance is still brilliance, even when used to the bad.

Never negate or diminish the necessity of GOOD to triumph over EVIL. If evil is done by the brilliant, good must be done by becoming even more brilliant, or compelling them by other means to use their brilliance, or harvesting the fruits of that evil brilliance for the good somehow.

This is where Lao Tze when wrong when he advised "slaughter the talented", and similar sage advice, imo.

Instead consider a wiser sages advice:

He who gathers crops in summer is a prudent son,
but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son

--Solomon

[Sherman Logan]

If evil is done by the brilliant, good must be done by becoming even more brilliant, or compelling them by other means to use their brilliance, or harvesting the fruits of that evil brilliance for the good somehow.

Unfortunately, sometimes force is required to overcome brilliance in the service of evil.

Or, to paraphrase Lincoln, "Let us pray that right makes might."