Logification of Evil

The specific process of using formal logic and systems thinking to structurally encode oppressive principles into laws, algorithms, or policies. It is evil made operational, efficient, and automated—not just rationalized after the fact, but built into the very logic of a system.

Example: A predictive policing algorithm that labels neighborhoods as "high risk" based on historic arrest data. The logification of evil occurs because the logic is formally sound (arrest data predicts future arrests), but it systemically reinforces the original racist policing that generated the data, embedding discrimination into code.

by Dumu The Void February 9, 2026

Lucification

A series of missteps, mistakes and consequences that wreak havoc on your life mirroring Lucy (I love Lucy)

Your life has experienced a complete Lucification.

by Lt.Olson May 1, 2025

Hyper-Logification Fallacy

The mistaken belief that every human concern can and should be reduced to logical form—that emotions, values, relationships, and experiences are all subject to the same rules as formal logic. This fallacy ignores that much of human life is not logical in the formal sense, and that trying to make it so distorts and diminishes it. Love doesn't follow syllogisms; grief doesn't obey modus ponens; art doesn't submit to validity tests. The hyper-logification fallacy is beloved of engineers, philosophers, and anyone who has ever tried to argue someone into love. It's the logic of "if you loved me, you'd do X," which confuses logical implication with emotional reality.

Hyper-Logification Fallacy Example: "He tried to logic her into staying: 'If you loved me, you'd want me to be happy. If you want me to be happy, you'd stay. Therefore, if you loved me, you'd stay.' She left anyway. Love doesn't follow logic, and logic doesn't capture love. The hyper-logification fallacy had failed, as it always does with matters of the heart."

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 17, 2026

Fallacy of Logification

The more formal and structurally deceptive cousin of rationalization. This fallacy involves constructing a rigid, self-contained logical framework—complete with axioms, definitions, and syllogisms—to systematically defend barbarism, injustice, or civilizational regression. Where rationalization makes excuses, logification builds a pseudo-philosophical system. It uses the tools of logic (deduction, categorization, consistency) but begins with poisoned premises (e.g., "some races are inherently less capable," "autocracy is more efficient") or willfully ignores vast human costs as "externalities." It is logic in service of inhumanity, creating a chilling, academic-sounding defense of the unthinkable.

Example: A Fallacy of Logification would be a tightly-argued essay "proving" the necessity of slavery using economic models that define human beings as capital assets, demographic theories about societal stability, and philosophical appeals to a "natural hierarchy." The logic is internally consistent within its own warped frame, but the frame itself is morally bankrupt. It uses the form of reasoned discourse to launder the content of atrocity, making evil look like an intellectual conclusion rather than a violent choice.

by Dumuabzu February 3, 2026