The topic discussed here is one aspect of several other foundations of Evil and Good: it is implicit in them, and this page exists solely to highlight the importance of this aspect:
"The real enemies of Humanity are not stupid: they waste no time with what doesn't count; the greater the positive potential of something, the more they target it.
Which condemns us to discern good from evil: it condemns us to never being allowed to put it all in the same basket, it condemns us to never throw the baby out with the bathwater."
(Source: Luca Esculapio)
It's like saying: the quantity of energy is one thing, its direction is another thing; the enemies of Humanity infiltrate to revert the direction of energy but, being unable to create it, they pervert the energy they find.
The result of their work – or rather, of their suppression – is the energy present being turned to Evil.
The point to emphasise here is that, as they are not stupid, they know that suppressing us requires energy; therefore, they focus their efforts against those who have the most of it. The greater one is, the more one becomes their target.
Furthermore, the greater one is, the more energy one has, the more one uses it and, on the average, the more failures one accumulates, and that too can tend to reverse the direction of one's energy.
Those whose energy has been turned to Evil are loose cannons.
But we too can be loose cannons.
How?
Simple:
We tend to feel repulsion in proportion to the amount of evil energy we perceive; as a result, the more energy, the more repulsion.
Now, to straighten things up and keep them straight it takes energy, too.
If we are effect of the repulsion we feel, we leave the field to Evil: we give up the energy we need only because it's been turned negative, and we fall back on scarcity of energy.
Goes without saying that we won't get anywhere this way.
We have no choice, and there are no shortcuts.
We're condemned to be cause: reconquer the energy we need to straighten things up and keep them straight, finding the way to revert it back to Good.