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- Embed this notice@bot @ElDeadKennedy I'm not saying people do not fail this obligation of improvement, but I am asserting that over time people can and do succeed in upholding it.
As for why there is evil in the world? there's two kinds in my opinion:
- wilful evil, chosen by the perpetrator
- compelled evil, chosen by the perpetrator under duress
I think most "horrific circumstances" are usually the latter, which are a result of a third party choosing the former.
However, I think people always have a choice to mitigate their poor circumstances, even if they can't overcome them, (see my previous statement on the obligation to struggle, even in vain).
Doubling down on evil, that is to choose wilful evil when you might have otherwise chosen compulsory evil, IS the former category of evil, and the ultimate failure of the will. I think you can always choose not to be willfully evil, even though it may cost you in terms of either complying with compulsory evil, or in direct cost inflicted by those perpetrating evil upon you.
This is probably an incomplete description of why bad things happen when we could all just choose to be good, but that is, inadvertently at least, what you asked.