“I’m glad somebody on this thread understands that! I’m getting really irked by the “clinical diagnosis” and other kinds of dismissals!”
One of the saddest, and perhaps the most dangerous, aspects of modern Western society is its dismissal of the concept of “evil”, or better yet, of the Evil One, from whom, in fact, we ask God to deliver us (not simply from some free floating “evil” as the English would have it) in the final words of the Lord’s Prayer. As Alex once observed, the West has a problem with accepting the reality of Evil.
I saw on Utube a video of a man who is able to draw a perfect picture of cities from a single flight back and forth across them: London, Rome Tokoyo. Mt point being that despite all the talk, we don’t have a clue about the actual workings of the human mind. The materialists want to reduce everything to “matter.” Bishop Berkeley made hash of the notion of “matter” more than 200 years ago. But this has no kept modern philosophers from trying to reduce all things to this absurdity.
“As Alex once observed, the West has a problem with accepting the reality of Evil.”
But apparently no problem enjoying it’s fruits.