Understanding Evil

If you are interested in virtue sets, you owe it to yourself to read WJT’s essay on Satan Divided Against Himself.

It’s full of insights.  (In the following passage, “Ahriman”=Satan, the evils of fear and excessive prudence and risk avoidance)

Those who serve Ahriman may seek to be in control themselves, but more often their goal may simply be that everything be under control. Hierarchy is of Ahriman, because even those who are far from the top have no objection to it. Even an Ahrimanist who has the ability to control things personally will generally defer these personal decisions to a system or algorithm, personal responsibility being unpleasantly risky.

Even the casual asides are good.  Here he is describing how the two fundamental good impulses (seek goods, avoid evils) can be turned to evil

• Sacrifice the avoidance of evil in order to pursue good (e.g. to seek pleasure)

• Sacrifice the pursuit of good in order to avoid evil (e.g. to be “safe”)