The Myth of Redemptive Violence

“The belief that violence "saves" is so successful because it doesn’t seem to be mythic in the least. Violence simply appears to be the nature of things. It’s what works. It seems inevitable, the last and, often, the first resort in  conflicts. If a god is what you turn to when all else fails, violence certainly functions as a god. What people overlook, then, is the religious character of  violence. It demands from its devotees an absolute obedience- unto-death. This Myth of Redemptive Violence is the real myth of the modern world. It, and not Judaism or Christianity or Islam, is the dominant religion in our society today.”

― Walter Wink

Does the concept of evil truly exist? Contrary to the popular narrative (or many popular war narratives throughout history whether they were mythical or actual) the Allies did not win WWII because it was a war of "good" vs. "evil" and that "good was destined to triumph over evil" but simply and merely because of the obvious advantages they had plus putting in a better effort lead to them winning. The Axis countries could have also won or both the Axis and Allied countries could still be co-existing via stalemates. If Hugh Everett's theory is true then there could even be realities where the Axis won (a la The Man in the High Castle). 

One thing is certain though and that is that there were actually successful genocides in OUR world. Many tribes and ethnic groups (like the Moriori, Selk'nam, Chono etc...) were completely wiped out in recorded history with no consequences whatsoever... That's not even counting all the lost hominids of prehistory and all the other countless extinct animals who were eradicated thanks to Homo sapiens. So where was "good vs. evil" then? 

Certain people should also consider the Holocaust, WWII, and all the events leading up to WWII in the context of the Andromeda Paradox. Perhaps the universe itself is "evil" if everything was fixed forever into spacetime to happen as it did. That kind of sounds ridiculous though so it is safer to say that "good" and "evil" do not actually exist in and of themselves but are purely human inventions and that these fictions applied to the world have no actual bearing on the world whatsoever.

Nobody truly knows why humans exist or what they are supposed to be doing here... if anything at all. It is hard to play a game when you don't know what the rules of the game are or if they even exist.

If the world is fake we should consider it in this manner:

Let's say hypothetically that the world has some sort of "filter"... (just like the Christian system of sinning and Heaven/Hell is a "world filter" or even older pre-Christian examples like Frashokereti) How do you know that it isn't the reverse of that system and that the world isn't rewarding or selecting for the most brutal types of our species or the ones that are the most considered as "evil"? Or something else even that we can't imagine or easily surmise?

“Gods reappear in unlimited numbers in the guise of the simulators who have the power of life and death over the simulated realities that they bring into being. The simulators determine the laws, and can change the laws, that govern their worlds. They can engineer  anthropic  fine-tunings. They can pull the plug on the simulation at any moment, intervene or distance themselves from their simulation; watch as the simulated creatures argue about whether there is a god who controls or intervenes, work miracles or impose their ethical principles upon the simulated reality.” 

― John D. Barrow