Forum:A Hard Discovery to Accept

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/267677/jewish/Wipe-Out-Amalek-Today.htm

The above is one really bizarre yet insightful article. I will not go so far as to say that ALL cynicism is bad; but to doubt God for unwarranted cynicism is definitely uncalled for, and all-too-often does teeter on the irrational. I myself have encountered many a troll online that is impossible to defeat with reason, my weapon of choice. Even responding with "I never said that" has no effect on them. The more I attempt to be logical with them (rather than righteous,) the angrier they get. They detest opposition that claims to be the voice of reason.

However, most of the rest of the above-listed site's definition of a "modern Amalekite" fits with both the definition of "Old Adam" which I am familiar with and with the TVTropes definitions of "Stupid Evil" and "Always Chaotic Evil."

Or, to quote Alfred: "Some men aren't looking for anything logical. They cannot be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with."

Not surprisingly, most of the western world rather ironically has an irrational desperation to resist the belief that an always chaotic evil group can even exist.

It works fine for movies, where slaughtering orcs does not seem like a moral challenge any of us will ever have to worry about. But then, we have terrorists in the real world. And some of them are browbeaten rather than pathologically evil. They have families which may still be able to be won over to the side of good. Yet, let them live, and the male terrorist may live long enough to find some excuse or another for an "honor" killing of his own family. Kill him before he has a chance, and his family will be indoctrinated into a revenge campaign leading to the Dandelion Effect unless we get to them in time.

Solutions, I guess, are never simple to come by when such beings exist. How do you know when you've found such a someone, and not something more mundane like a neighborhood sadist or someone who's got a chemical imbalance?