As in – eventually, they will thank me for this gruelling but essential task. So getting rid of them was Doing the World a Favour. The ultimate idea (though he recognised this was something for later generations and he would not live to see the glad day) was to murder every single Jew throughout the world, because in the very depths of his racist insanity he thought the Jews were Evil. The idea was to eradicate every last one of them. He was quite convinced that he was doing a GOOD THING by ridding Germany of all Jews.

Dualism is wrong because it is impossible to “like” badness for its own sake, huh? Because when you do bad things you’re really trying to achieve ends which are really good, but you’re going about it the wrong way, huh? Well now, let’s take our old devilish no-friend-of-mine Adolf Hitler. I was never that well versed in the subtleties of philosophical debate, and it is true that my brain has been progressively enfeebled by a constant dripfeed of Old Peculiar, chicken tikka masala and Italian exploitation movies, yet even I can see that this adds up to a pile of shit of Brobdingnagian proportions. You can be good for the mere sake of goodness : you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness.' I do mean that wickedness, when you examine it, turns out to be the pursuit of some good in the wrong way. i do not mean, of course, that the people who do this are not desperately wicked. The badness consists in pursuing them by the wrong method, or in the wrong way, or too much. But pleasure, money, power and safety are all, as far as they go, good things. But in real life people are cruel for one of two reasons - either because they are sadists, that is, because they have a sexual perversion which makes cruelty a cause of sensual pleasure to them, or else for the sake of something they are going to get out of it - money, or power, or safety. The nearest we can get to it is in cruelty. But in reality we have no experience of anyone liking badness just because it is bad. 'If Dualism is true then the Bad Power must be a being who likes badness for its own sake.

Manichaeism) whereby the existence of evil is explained by there being two equal forces in the Universe which are in perpetual contention, the Good one and the Bad one. Here's a passage from page 45 - CS is talking about what he calls Dualism (i.e. It may be that every single sentence in this book is either wrong or offensive or inane or all three. I had to stop reading this, it was making me ill.

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