> lobbying…but it’s primary function isn’t to be evil Its primary function is to maximize returns. That’s not necessarily evil, but amoral. Evil in the sense

> lobbying…but it’s primary function isn’t to be evil Its primary function is to maximize returns. That’s not necessarily evil, but amoral. Evil in the sense you’re using it is not real, but if it is, then pushing for a local advantage by externalizing costs onto others seems pretty bad to me. My issue is that lobbying is inefficient and bad overall as it increases the costs spread across the system and focuses the benefits in a specific area. Usually to a net negative. For example, spend $1M in lobbying to earn $2M in benefits at a cost of $100M to the system (see US agricultural subsidies on sugar, corn, etc that help a very small section of an industry at great expense). Again, not evil in the sense of eating babies or gas chambers or whatnot, but banal and causing harm. There’s not much true evil in the short term and even Nazis (the most evil I can think of) would be perceived very differently had they won (see the opinion on Ghengis Khan).