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 ""Evil as excess 

I removed the following phrase:
It has been suggested that not all evil is due to a privation; malaria, for example, is due to not a lacking, but an excess (in this case, of disease).[6]
It was referred to a ""Beginner's guide"" and as such is not very convincing. In this way any type of evil may be explained: as an excess of a particular ""carrier of evil"". But it is clearly a logical blunder: it is simply a regression (""sweeping under the carpet"" of the issue): it does not explain how the ""carrier of evil"" have got the evil to carry. To explain it for a layman: the fridge may be described as a ""carrier of cold"", but it does not bring ""cold"" (although we may colloquially say so): in fact, it removes heat.   "