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belief that human nature is fundamentally good and the view of human nature as fundamentally depraved are false dichotomy
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From Thinking about people p.157 by [Konosuke Matsushita
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What to do about evil that cannot be extinguished
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To discern the power of evil and the workings of evil, and to make good use of them in community life.
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Accept the existence of evil as it is and consider ways to deal with evil in its own way.
Not “all humans are good, so we don’t need to take measures to prevent abuse.” It’s not a “we are all evil, so we need to take precautions so that we can’t be abused.” We believe that there are both good and evil in a person, but that the distinction is only tentative. The idea of “using evil for good” rather than fixed good and evil.
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