To me, ‘evil’ means ‘should be destroyed if possible’. Therefore I don’t like to hand out the label recklessly, as it leads generally to impotent rage, which is harmful to me.
Depends on if you mean by that, as shorthand that the evil (insert person or thing) must be destroyed if possible.
You could get rid of something ‘evil’ by reforming or changing it to be ‘non-evil’ by whatever means, that don’t involve literally annihilating it.
Unless your definition of evil thing implies unreformable (don’t know if that matches intuition—I can image stories where an ‘evil’ villain sees the light and becomes good) and destruction is the only option.
To me, ‘evil’ means ‘should be destroyed if possible’. Therefore I don’t like to hand out the label recklessly, as it leads generally to impotent rage, which is harmful to me.
Depends on if you mean by that, as shorthand that the evil (insert person or thing) must be destroyed if possible.
You could get rid of something ‘evil’ by reforming or changing it to be ‘non-evil’ by whatever means, that don’t involve literally annihilating it.
Unless your definition of evil thing implies unreformable (don’t know if that matches intuition—I can image stories where an ‘evil’ villain sees the light and becomes good) and destruction is the only option.