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evil : "I will" {BAR} ^[1] -> "ich will" {de}.

Greed is interpreted as evil ^[2]

• wanting something or wanting something to happen before the consequences are considered or without reflecting the consequences sufficiently.

evil : E viel -> It is an Error to aim for much personal possession. This would probably be vaguely synonymous with "good" in its literal meaning. ^[3]

This interpretation is the opposite of the first interpretation: Somebody who is evil would be somebody who opposes gathering possession for no better reason than possession itself.

^[1] See Bayer

^[2] overgeneralization and overstatement. Phrased as a question this could be: What degree of greed should you consider unethical and what measures can be taken to counter undesirable trends?

^[3] oversimplification, overstatement: A broad ethical judgement is reduced to a single quality that appears to be insufficient by itself.

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The ususal antagonists ^[1] in movies or, occasionally, on TV news appear to be the statement "So you seem to assume there is something more evil than greed?"

Appropriate to the Species model: If you were to assume, for example, that another species was promoting that things you desired or worked towards became reality, only not for you but for anybody else, possibly decades or centuries later that would make many goals suddenly appear much less desirable. ^[2]

Antagonists in movies or TV news could be seen as the result of wanting to act badly and irresponsibly but feeling more responsible than others anyway (so the actually evil people need to be invented as a confirmation / rationalization).

^[1] The antagonists are also often quite murderous, which probably would make them the good guys, metaphorically, but this is a different aspect.

^[2] E.g. wanting to be lazy and rich. If that was a common wish it might lead to random persons becoming rich for doing inadequate work. Why would that be desirable? (Playing lottery is that goal institutionalized, by the way.) If you don't want it don't promote it by supporting organizations working towards that goal, because that could make it true even outside the Appropriate to the Species model.

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