The specific process of using formal logic and systems thinking to structurally encode oppressive principles into laws, algorithms, or policies. It is evil made operational, efficient, and automated—not just rationalized after the fact, but built into the very logic of a system.
Example: A predictive policing algorithm that labels neighborhoods as "high risk" based on historic arrest data. The logification of evil occurs because the logic is formally sound (arrest data predicts future arrests), but it systemically reinforces the original racist policing that generated the data, embedding discrimination into code.
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Example: "The transatlantic slave trade was a tragic but economically necessary phase in developing modern capital markets and introducing Africans to Christianity." This rationalization of evil uses historical consequence and ideology to weave moral catastrophe into a narrative of tragic inevitability or hidden benefit.
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