There is a trap, what it says is you have to be bad to do good. It finds a way to convince a person that the rationals for being bad are for some greater good.
It fits into the ends justify the means. But people are what they do. And if a person does bad, even if they think it is for some greater good, they are trusting that their perceived future, that will come from doing bad, will actually be a good future.
So many PR people can create an illusion of some outcome and then say you have to do bad to get to that outcome. The trap is that there is no good end in that world because there is always some other thing that the person is told they have to lie about, be mean to, or do something else that is bad in order to reach that illusionary end that is created.
The process is, create a perceived goal, and then give a bad path that some how can reach that goal. The flaws in the illusion many times are in perceptions of what a good outcome is, a good outcome for one person is different then other people. So a racists outcome is different then a tolerant person's outcome. And a selfish person has a different outcome then a selfless person. So the method also incorporates ideas of what is right, Ayn Rand type thoughts.
It really isn't that new of a thing, but it is dark side. It gets really fumbled up when people create interpretations to make that bad seem good from self desired realities. Then the perceived future becomes dependant on a perception of what is even real.
If you distill it out, you are what you choose to do, and you do not reach better outcomes by doing things a person knows is bad. That is the trap of that philosophy.
It is true that there is suffering in life, many use that as a rational to be the person that causes the suffering. They say the suffering can lead to a better person, and that is true. But if a person takes the role of wanting to be the adversary that creates suffering, they are acknowledging what side of that eternal question they are on. I do believe sometimes tougher things happen, but not for the selfish reasons of a person. And we should always be working to lesson suffering and show the better ways while doing the better actions. Charity, honesty, integrity, kindness and working for a better place with less suffering for the most people possible. The reason for needing a trained edge from hardships is only because there are things that want to create suffering. As people work to make things better for more and more people, that need diminishes and things are not as bad for as many people.
And the other reason I don't think people need to be mean, and can be kind and loving is because what I have learned in my own beliefs. "Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord." I believe that is because we do not have the knowledge to judge completely like God does. We have a bias and flaws that make our knowledge of good and evil to be distorted by are own desires and wants. But God knows what needs to be done. We can try to do the best we can always, knowing we are not perfect, but choosing the better ways. In my belief we trust in God to fill out the rest and keep us on coarse.
So if we stay in love and kindness we win either way, first, in my belief we show love for Almighty God, and second we show love for our neighbor. In my belief if we were wrong, and God needed the rod for a person, it would be God's ways to do such a thing, vengeance is God's for the good of all his children, and by God taking that role that he alone has, God protects us from such things, and gives us the ability to love, while he also shows love to us. So while God sorts things out, God gives us the ability to partake of beauty and love, in that we do not have to be the dark side, because God can take care of anything and can give us the ability to be loving and kind if that is what he wants, and what we choose.
Don't Forget To Breath.
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