The question of the compatibility of these concepts is complex. To reveal it, one should think about who can be called a genius, what is considered to be villainy. A genius is considered to be a person who is highly gifted with intuition, imagination, has outstanding creative abilities, is able to think outside the box, putting plans into practice. What is villainy? It is customary to call evil evil. Evil is the deliberate infliction of harm, suffering or pain on others. When you give answers to these questions, it seems that you can easily reveal the topic raised. But this is a delusion. Different people and nations have different concepts of good and evil. For example, it is customary among Asian warriors to wipe their enemies off the face of the earth, to spare neither the little nor the old. Russian soldiers behave in a completely different way. The whole world knows the monument to the Russian soldier,who holds in his arms a little saved girl. This little girl belongs to the camp of his enemies, she is the daughter of one of them. But on the strong hands of a warrior, she is calm and reliable, nothing threatens her life. If one warrior, carrying death, believes that he is doing good, the other realizes that this is a tragic necessity that causes terrible pain. The first lives and fights according to the principle of scorched earth, the other is guided by the concept of holy sacrifice, calling for mercy on the weak and small, even if they belong to the camp of the enemy.The first lives and fights according to the principle of scorched earth, the other is guided by the concept of holy sacrifice, calling for mercy on the weak and small, even if they belong to the camp of the enemy.The first lives and fights according to the principle of scorched earth, the other is guided by the concept of holy sacrifice, calling for mercy on the weak and small, even if they belong to the camp of the enemy.
How difficult it is to give an unambiguous answer to the topic we have touched upon! So are there evil geniuses? I think they exist. Alexey Tolstoy in his work "The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin" tells us about a brilliant inventor who gave the world a fantastic apparatus with endless possibilities. But the main character, with all his talent, obsession, courage, flight of fantasy, with the help of his invention, brings evil into the world. If we turn to history, we will see a lot of similar examples there. Nero, Tsar Peter, Napoleon, Hitler, Henry Ford are geniuses, but how many deaths, suffering and pain they brought into the world.
Traveling through the pages of literature and history, I find a lot of evidence that the concepts of genius and villainy are compatible. This conclusion saddens me, but at the same time instills in my heart the hope that someday only good geniuses will live in the world.
