When working at an occult store, a friend and I frequently looked at one another and said, "If it weren't for these pesky ethics, I could get rich off of people like that."
Yep. Sadly, not caring about collateral damage was one of the things that got us all into this mess. It sucks that being effective and good is harder than being effective and evil.
Truths like that lead me to question the nature (and utility) of good and evil, as categories.
Much of the time, good seems more long term, evil more immediate gratification. Good is spending all summer mucking about in shit and dirt so that next year you'll have a good garden. Evil is saying, "Fuck it, I'll just spray this chemical crap all over everything. Sure, it will eventually kill the soil, but I'll have sold this house and moved somewhere better before that happens..."
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I'm sure it gets a lot easier if you don't care about collateral damage, but I do.
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Much of the time, good seems more long term, evil more immediate gratification. Good is spending all summer mucking about in shit and dirt so that next year you'll have a good garden. Evil is saying, "Fuck it, I'll just spray this chemical crap all over everything. Sure, it will eventually kill the soil, but I'll have sold this house and moved somewhere better before that happens..."