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Malevolence (film series), a series of three slasher films by Stevan Mena Malevolence, the 2003 first film in the series; Malevolent, a British horror film by Olaf de Fleur; To Your Last Death (working title Malevolent), a 2019 American animated horror film; Malevolence, a ship in the TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Hanlon's razor is an adage or rule of thumb that states: [1]. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. It is a philosophical razor that suggests a way of eliminating unlikely explanations for human behavior.
The concept was not new in 1948 when humorist Paul Jennings coined this name for it in a piece titled "Report on Resistentialism", published in The Spectator that year [2] and reprinted in The New York Times; [3] the word is a blend of the Latin res ("thing"), the French résister ("to resist"), and the existentialism school of philosophy. [4]
Crisis of malevolence [ edit ] An organization faces a crisis of malevolence when opponents or miscreant individuals use criminal means or other extreme tactics for the purpose of expressing hostility or anger toward, or seeking gain from, a company, country, or economic system, perhaps with the aim of destabilizing or destroying it.
Wickedness is generally considered a synonym for evil or sinfulness. Among theologians and philosophers, it has the more specific meaning of a profound evil committed consciously and of free will. [1] It can also be considered the quality or state of being wicked. [2]
Dystheism as a concept, although often not labeled as such, has been referred to in many aspects of popular culture.As stated before, related ideas date back many decades, with the Victorian era figure Algernon Charles Swinburne writing in his work Anactoria about the ancient Greek poet Sappho and her lover Anactoria in explicitly dystheistic imagery that includes cannibalism and sadomasochism.
The modern English word evil (Old English yfel) and its cognates such as the German Übel and Dutch euvel are widely considered to come from a Proto-Germanic reconstructed form of *ubilaz, comparable to the Hittite huwapp-ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European form *wap-and suffixed zero-grade form *up-elo-.
Belial is a Hebrew word "used to characterize the wicked or worthless". The etymology of the word is often understood as "lacking worth", [5] from two common words: beli-(בְּלִי "without-") and ya'al (יָעַל "to be of value").