Spellcasting is absolutely necessary for good folk to do dark things. Russian soldiers simply call a Ukrainian woman a Nazi and they are free to rape her. Rioters need simply call Pence a Traitor and they are free to hang him. The sanitizing magic of labels. It doesn’t have to be true, you just need to say the words. Good people need this preamble or they would no longer be good. The tributaries that flow from this magic are not new. History is riddled with good people who need this ward.

Intrinsic is a tricky word and one I am constantly tempted to invoke. Like a spell. I pull my steps on this wet planet like a man walks in a haunted house but that doesn’t make me more qualified to invoke shit. Even though I really feel that it should.