On the Eternal Coexistence with Evil: Political Philosophy of the Origin of Curiosity Theory

All political utopias share one fatal structural defect: they attempt to eliminate evil by eradicating the carriers of evil. Based on the axiomatic framework of the Origin of Curiosity Theory and the Infinite Non-Cyclic Determinism (INCD), this paper proves with logical necessity that any utopian project aiming at the complete eradication of evil inevitably transforms the eradicating agent into the ultimate form of evil. Evil is not an external social pathogen or a contingent defect of human society. It is an inherent and ineradicable attribute of finite mortal life. Rooted in the existential competition of finite beings against annihilation, scarcity, and hierarchical status ordering, evil persists as a structural necessity rather than a historical accident. As long as finite life exists, evil exists. This paper formulates the Dragon Slayer Paradox: any institutional entity granted the monopoly power to define, judge, and eradicate evil will inexorably degenerate into the very tyranny it seeks to destroy. To resolve this paradox, this paper establishes three structural behavioral axioms: Truth-Seeking, Kindness, and Evil-Restraining. Together they constitute a self-consistent distributed constraint system that avoids both ideological self-deception and the corruption of means over ends. Distinguished from the normative moral frameworks of Kantian deontology and Rawlsian justice, the three axioms proposed herein are structural stability conditions for social systems, not ideal moral aspirations. The core political conclusion follows: a sustainable civil order does not eliminate structural evil, but dissolves the monopolistic institutional role of the “dragon slayer”. Civilization persists not in a utopia without evil, but in a steady state of coexistence with constrained evil, free of absolute moral authority.