The amoeba is an animal which, given its characteristics, is used figuratively to describe an individual as a complete nonentity.
Life, and especially individuals, are enemies to Evil, and quite obviously a fundamental strategy of Evil is reducing its enemies to nothing in the first place.
Hence, a typical form of the infiltration of Evil in a society is the pressure to push individuals down the scale, from its top, the state of clear-headed, aware, self-determined and strong individual - total cause and total responsibility -, to its bottom, the state of amoeba - total effect and total irresponsibility -.
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