The Fundamental Dilemma of Human Action: Does evil always spread easily?
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper explores the asymmetry between the positive and negative impacts of human actions, analyzing how physical, psychological, and social forces contribute to the ease with which evil spreads, while good requires substantial effort to create transformation. Entropy, a fundamental principle of thermodynamics, explains how systems naturally tend towards disorder, making destruction a spontaneous process and construction something that demands continuous energy. However, as demonstrated by Prigogine and Schneider & Sagan, open systems can utilize energy flows to generate order, allowing life and complexity to sustain themselves despite the entropic tendency.
Author: de Paula, Abdon
Institution: Centro de Estudos da População Economia e Sociedade
Language: English
Subfield: Computational Theory and Mathematics
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6893488751
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