Bit of a leap from "heat cannon, of itself, pass from one body to a hotter body"?

Who's to say that degrading exergy is strongly or weakly aligned with good or evil, or that good and evil are opposites? Is degrading exergy entirely orthogonal to good and evil, like the gnostics articulate? These are open philosophical questions that the author would do better to contextualise if this essay were to be more than an incomplete survey.