Project:Sandbox

In 2015, John Zande argued that maximum evil (identified as The Owner of All Infernal Names: a being who does not share His creation with any other comparable spirit, does not seek to be known to or worshipped by that which He has created, or has allowed to be created, and whose greatest proof of existence is that there is no conspicuous proof of His existence, just teleological birthmarks that can be isolated and studied as testimony) is not, as Max Andrews claims, “maximally selfish,” hateful, vengeful, or even hostile, rather best described as intensely pragmatic and thoroughly observant of His needs; promoting, defending, and even admiring life in its struggle to persist and self-adorn. In his attempt to define evil, Andrews, he argues, ignores the self-evident fact that a world driven only by impetuous brutality would resemble more a raging, superheated, short-lived bonfire than a secure, creative, and ultimately profitable marketplace desired by a Creator who seeks to maximise His pleasure over time. Maximum evil, Zande argues*, is not therefore an Ouroboros on a colossal scale, hopelessly given over to self-indulgence and destined to defile itself in a single gluttonous moment of unchecked desecration, rather a maximally powerful being who craves, perhaps above all other things, growth across the entire marketplace of that which is possible, knowing as He observes this flowering prosperity that it will only spawn greater expressions of pain, anxiety, and suffering over time.