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