Assuming (for maximum inconvenience), it only works on living things, and only after they’re stabbed to death, this is hilarious in that we can’t even confirm whether it’s consistent on the same target. How would anyone show it’s not fully random with each stabbing?
Ooh, maybe EVIL is random. Some bad acts are driven by confusion or circumstance, and some good acts are driven by bad intent. But the interior spark of evilness, a type of qualia that’s not directly measurable or definable, is randomly experienced at different times by any given agent, and has no impact on the actions of any individual.
Really, though, it’s fiction. It means whatever the author wants, disconnected from our universe.
Assuming (for maximum inconvenience), it only works on living things, and only after they’re stabbed to death, this is hilarious in that we can’t even confirm whether it’s consistent on the same target. How would anyone show it’s not fully random with each stabbing?
Ooh, maybe EVIL is random. Some bad acts are driven by confusion or circumstance, and some good acts are driven by bad intent. But the interior spark of evilness, a type of qualia that’s not directly measurable or definable, is randomly experienced at different times by any given agent, and has no impact on the actions of any individual.
Really, though, it’s fiction. It means whatever the author wants, disconnected from our universe.
You assume they’re dead. (It gives you a past measurement—no guarantee someone won’t become evil later.)