[quote=@Etcetera]
<Snipped quote by Tank O The Lake>

*Nods*
And what if they could evade these traps? Ascend and become something greater than themselves? Every one of those events you listed share a cause beyond human ambition. Their striving isn't the source of their evil, but the bait that brings out the true evil inside of themselves.
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If you ask me, the rest state of reality as a whole is one of conflict, and will be until the last star in the last little timeline burns out.  The laws of thermodynamics dictate it; something must transition from a higher state of matter to a lower to perform any form of meaningful work.  Gasoline burns to drive cars, stars burn out to heat worlds and make life, and governments fall and men fight to exact societal change.  There's nothing morally [i]wrong[/i] with conflict, just as there's nothing evil about a hurricane or an earthquake.  Conflict, disunity, discord, are all simply entropic forces writ large.