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18251458 No.18251458 [Reply] [Original]

What are some books that unironically argue for evil?

>> No.18251523
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>> No.18251595

>>18251458

This box appears to correspond to some Sunni Islamist group of one form or another (Hamas, Al Qaeda, take your pick, I won't bother trying to find out which), and the OP image is always chosen for rhetorical effect with respect to the OP. The prompt could be taken as: "what are some books that unironically argue for evil (like the Islamist group thing I just posted, y'know). Rockets firing in and around Israel (the most obvious news event corresponding to the OP's image) merely mean that spring is here, and are not news or interesting in themselves. So I reject the specific rhetorical content of the OP's picture as dull, and will consider only the text itself, the sentence.

The OP prompt seems to have a little sincerity, taken at face value. How can one argue for evil? Doesn't each subject really want what they perceive to be good, in some sense? The OP's question is driving at a contradiction: a philosophical justification that "Evil is Good", or similar. Accepting a plain contradition, Orwell style.

This is easily in most cases: the bad guy is really just misunderstood, he's crazy,

One figure who comes to mind was one "Harlot", who called in to Art Bell once and went on at length about how she was a satanist and a witch and she capital-K Knew that she was going to hell, and was fine with it. But even Harlot had a sort of morality to her stance, a certain principle, even if one finds it perverse.

This is the answer. The sort of book that "unironically argues for evil" is not a philosophical text which JUSTIFIES "evil" (a contradiction in terms), but can only be the writings of violent criminals who are taking some unprincipled pleasure in their acts, real or imagined (Sade, Brady, Fish, and so forth). Porn and True Crime are the relevant genres, it seems, not philosophy. Almost all of the Principled, whatever their principle, understand themselves to be Good, in the sense that it matters to them. I don't believe for example that Hitler conceived of himself as evil. He had a grievance, a program, and he stuck to it. Even Stalin wanted to maintain order, Mao might be a bit better, but they all had Systems that they repaired to with reason, however cynically.

>> No.18251928

Not a book, but The House That Jack Built is a good one.

>> No.18252053

>>18251523
The hell?

>> No.18252069

>>18251458
Anything by Marx

>> No.18252072

de Sade

>> No.18252138

>>18251458
My upcoming book.

>> No.18252187

>>18252069
(You)

>> No.18252717

anything written by the o9a but i wouldn't read it if i were you, best to stay away from demonic influences and keep your soul intact

>> No.18252725

>>18251458
Everything rightoid schizoposters promote.
Anything fascist or natsco.

Bugmen want you to join the hive or die.