Kenneth McKendrick

If we don't fix this, the entire universe could come to an end.

We have to fix that.

But recognizing that that's what's going on, I think, will help you change your toolbox a little bit.

You may approach that a little bit differently and say,

This is a purity crusade.

This isn't about, you know, argumentation.

It's not about right and wrong as we understand it morally.

If you're, you know, a fan of contemporary, you know, moral theory, then you'd be like, we have to get this to a point of human rights and justice.

And we have to move it out of just, you know, obliterating people that are different than us or that we define as dirt, you know, that matter out of place that Mary Douglas talks about.

You might say demons are evil in the medieval period in Europe, but then after nobody believes in demons, then saying that demons are evil doesn't really hold any weight, right?

And so you can say, ah, we're going to call the rich evil now, or we're going to call the monarchies evil.

And again, I'm not into like, is it true or is it not true?

It's just like, how did you get there?

How did you get to that point where you were able to say that evil?

Like who benefits?

It was the school teachers and principals that were using the word evil in the residential school system.

They were using that word in order to enact and carry out genocide.

But we use words in all kinds of different ways, right?

That was a particularly malicious way.

I don't know if it's cynical, but I'm thinking how convenient it is for both of those groups to have this word at hand, to use how they want in order to push their agenda.