A good man is governed by what is right, not by external reward or threat. His actions proceed from alignment with truth, not from fear, desire, or coercion. Because he cannot be tempted or threatened out of what is right, he cannot be controlled. An evil man, however, is ruled by the impulses of the world—pleasure, fear, ambition, and greed. His motives arise from illusion, so he is easily manipulated by those who control appearances. Thus, evil men are controlled by the world, while good men control it—not through domination, but through mastery of self and obedience to truth.

Evil is subject to good because evil has no independent existence. It is not a force in itself, but a distortion of what is good—a privation, absence, or misdirection of the good. Just as darkness is not a substance but the lack of light, evil depends on the good it denies. Good, by definition, is that which aligns with reality, coherence, and order. It affirms and sustains being. Evil, conversely, negates and destroys; therefore, it cannot sustain itself and must parasitically rely on the structures established by the good. Every act of evil presupposes the existence of some good thing to corrupt—whether it be life, truth, or love. Without these, evil would have nothing to act upon and thus would vanish.

In that sense, evil is inherently subordinate to good: it is secondary, derivative, and self-defeating. It cannot create, only twist; it cannot endure, only consume. Good is self-existent, while evil is contingent. This is why, ultimately, good always prevails—not as a moral hope, but as a metaphysical certainty. Only what is real can persist, and evil, being unreal in itself, collapses back into the good from which it stole its temporary form.

Yet most people live in confusion about what is truly good and what is truly evil. They mistake comfort for goodness and suffering for evil; they equate obedience to convention with virtue and resistance to it with wrongdoing. Without understanding that good is alignment with reality itself and that evil is its denial, the moral order appears inverted. What is right becomes incomprehensible, and all distinctions blur into confusion. Until one perceives the nature of good and evil as expressions of truth and falsity, nothing else can be properly understood.

Basically, evil is negative and contains within itself the seeds of it's own destruction.