But malice never being a good explanation when malice is basically “desiring another misfortune or loss”. So malice never being a good explanation is completely ridiculous. I wanted to check if you where really saying what I thought you where saying so I rephrased it in my own words to match how I understood your statement.
I wanted to check if you where really saying what I thought you where saying so I rephrased it in my own words to match how I understood your statement.
That part is of course a good habit. I think the confusion happened because I was asking “how did malice ever seem like a good explanation [for this phenomenon] in the first place?”, not “how did malice ever seem like a good explanation [for anything ever in the history of the universe] in the first place?”.
Perhaps this is so.
But malice never being a good explanation when malice is basically “desiring another misfortune or loss”. So malice never being a good explanation is completely ridiculous. I wanted to check if you where really saying what I thought you where saying so I rephrased it in my own words to match how I understood your statement.
That part is of course a good habit. I think the confusion happened because I was asking “how did malice ever seem like a good explanation [for this phenomenon] in the first place?”, not “how did malice ever seem like a good explanation [for anything ever in the history of the universe] in the first place?”.