**Hubris is punished.
**Anger begets anger.
**Rending the fabric of human connection leads to social disintegration.
**Tearing down the structures of justice draws down the social capital of trust.
Evil is too twisted to align with the ways of life. And so, like the hand of the potter on the spinning clay, the order of life sweeps away what's out of kilter with its circle.
This is how nations that choose the path of evil get punished.
