We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.
I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is more than probable that the evil effects of the human aggressive drives, explained by Sigmund Freud as the results of a special death wish, simply derive from the fact that in prehistoric times intra-specific selection bred into man a measure of aggression drive for which in the social order today he finds no adequate outlet.
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