The Expulsion of Evil

Perversions of the sacrificial principle (purgation by scapegoat, congregation by segregation) are the constant temptation of human societies, whose orders are built by a kind of animal exceptionally adept in the ways of symbolic action. 

These passages hint at the Christian ethic, preached but not practiced, that it is better to be wronged than to do wrong, to be a victim than an aggressor. They presage the legend of Jesus, mankind s most illustrious scapegoat, who suffered for and redeemed all 

The theme of the scapegoat is, of course, not confined to Jewish and Christian religion and folkways. Similar practices are described for other times and places. Frazer tells us that among the Caffres 

Mutatis mutandis, the same should be true for psychiatry, but today psychiatrists are as intolerant as priests were formerly. Illustrative is the following statement by one of the leading forensic psychiatrists in the United States and a recipient of the American Psychiatric Association s prestigious Isaac Ray Award If it is considered the will of the majority that large numbers of sex offenders. .. be indefinitely deprived of their liberty and supported at the expense of the state, I readily yield to that judgment. (Manfred S. Guttmacher, Sex Offenses, p. 132.) 

X I believe that intelligent self-interest, conscientious self-restraint, and sympathetic identification with others would engender less inclination to hatred than traditional religious teachings based on the promise of redemption through the sacrifice of scapegoats. 

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Molecular disease is closely connected with evolution. The appearance of the concept of good and evil that was interpreted by Man as his painful expulsion from Paradise probably was a molecular disease that turned out to be evolution. 

Forced migration is typically conceived of as an evil (Penz 1997 37), as something that ought morally to be avoided, but are there circumstances when it might be justifiable This is a question that is obviously relevant to scholars of deportation, as states often claim that expulsion (particularly of convicted non-citizen criminals) increases public security (Gibney 2013b). But the matter has received most attention by way of discussions of development induced displacement and resettlement (DIDR). 

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