Reply #23: Lots of folks would choose evil. Even if they recognized it.

[Tesha]

> "John Bolton is the kind of man with whom I would
> want to stand at Armageddon, if it should be my
> lot to be on hand for what is forecast to be the
> final battle between good and evil in this world."
>
> I am sure Jesse could recognize good and evil.

Lots of folks would choose evil. Even if they recognized it.

One of the points that Stephen King's The Stand
drove home to me was that a lot of my then business
associates would definitely be the folks who ended up
supporting Randall Flagg out in Las Vegas. I had sort-
of known that intuitively for a long time, but I didn't
really consciously realize just how morally-bankrupt
my Libertarian techie friends were until King laid it
out in black-on-white for me; then it really rang true.
And I was sadly certain that he was exactly correct.

Tesha