2006-1-28 04:50:00
Larry:
To evade the consequences they (Drug addicts) take their consciousness from the mental level and submerge it back into the emotional level. They tell their mind to not bring up those disturbing facts again.
The only way such a person can see their activity as being "in their best interest" is at the emotional level. At the mental level I would bet that most know that their activities are not in their best interest. They are not really wanting death, but they need to suppress and evade their very real knowledge that is where their activities may be leading.
So in fact they know evil and are not ignorant of it.
The subject wasn't about being ignorant of evil.
The question was:
Can evil exist without ignorance?
To this my answer was no.
The drug addict doesn't have death as a value but pleasure. He is not ignorant of the consequences of taking drugs but is aware of the pleasure he will get as weighed against many of the consequences. When faced with taking the drug he takes it because it seems to him that the pleasure he gets is worth the risk.
He is making a faulty judgment out of ignorance. He is not seeing the whole picture but just looking into the immediate future. If he understood the full consequences he would quit.
Both people who are mentally and emotionally polarized have been addicted to drugs and quit when the big picture became clear to them. A clear understanding of danger can bring forth the resources to rouse the self-control to handle the situation.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
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