Why Does Evil Exist?

Evan Velez
World Literature (2332)
Dec 10, 2020

Evil exists in our world because of our natural lust for power. In every living organism, we have a thought process to protect what is ours or collect more. For example, bears fight amongst themselves over territory to collect more than what they have already. In the same way, our governments fight each other to keep or gain more land than what they have already. This is also apparent in each of our social systems: Communism, Social Democracy, Capitalism, Anarchism. Each of these systems is inherently evil to some group in one way or another: Capitalism to the poor, Social Democracy to the rich, Communism to the rich and freedom thinkers, etc. There is no person in the world who can invent a system with any lack of “evil”, and therefore evil continues to exist in the world.

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