I guess my sense of empathy has finally caught up with me. As a follow on from another topic on the vein of Satan...
Does anyone else feel sorry for the character of the Devil? I don't think what he did in the tales was the right way forward, but it seems like he's been subjected to so much hatred and been left alone to fester in his own darkness for so long that it would be tremendously injust of either God or Humanity to demand his destruction now.
Wouldn't the right thing to do be to extend a hand of forgiveness to him rather than a thrusted dagger of vindication? I know that I, for one, would not feel happy were he to be sentenced to extinction while I yet live.
If not, would Satan an exception to the "Love thine Enemies and pray for those who persecute you" rule? Could you justify that?
(And don't start with the "It's not real" stuff. It's a hypothetical ethical question whose query remains regardless of whether there is an actual devil or if it's just fiction.)
2006-11-11
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