i do not mean, of course, that the people who do this are not desperately wicked. The badness consists in pursuing them by the wrong method, or in the wrong way, or too much. But pleasure, money, power and safety are all, as far as they go, good things. But in real life people are cruel for one of two reasons - either because they are sadists, that is, because they have a sexual perversion which makes cruelty a cause of sensual pleasure to them, or else for the sake of something they are going to get out of it - money, or power, or safety. The nearest we can get to it is in cruelty. But in reality we have no experience of anyone liking badness just because it is bad. "If Dualism is true then the Bad Power must be a being who likes badness for its own sake. Manichaeism) whereby the existence of evil is explained by there being two equal forces in the Universe which are in perpetual contention, the Good one and the Bad one. Here's a passage from page 45 - CS is talking about what he calls Dualism (i.e. It may be that every single sentence in this book is either wrong or offensive or inane or all three. I had to stop reading this, it was making me ill.
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