Escape from Evil

Another example of a manuscript that the author, before dying, requested not be published. A companion text to his classic The Denial of Death, this work argues that what we call evil (a term that is lightly tossed about, but shouldn't be) isn't because we are flawed or distorted from a more

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pristine nature (as Rousseau and Marx believed), or because we are inherently evil, delighting in the infliction of pain and suffering (as Christianity argues), but because due to our nature as a death-aware species, we strive to do good for ourselves, but in the process that usually ends up being bad for others. Immortality projects tend to have high costs in blood.

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