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The Evil of Banality - On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking (Hardcover)
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The Evil of Banality - On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking (Hardcover)
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How is it possible to murder a million people one by one? Hatred,
fear, madness of one or many people cannot explain it. No one can
be so possessed for the months, even years, required for genocides,
slavery, deadly economic exploitation, sexual trafficking of
children. In The Evil of Banality, Elizabeth Minnich argues for a
tragic yet hopeful explanation. "Extensive evil," her term for
systematic horrific harm-doing, is actually carried out, not by
psychopaths, but by people like your quiet next door neighbor, your
ambitious colleagues. There simply are not enough moral monsters
for extensive evil, nor enough saints for extensive good. In
periods of extensive evil, people little different from you and me
do its work for no more than a better job, a raise, the house of
the family "disappeared" last week. So how can there be hope? The
seeds of such evils are right there in our ordinary lives. They are
neither mysterious nor demonic. If we avoid romanticizing and so
protecting ourselves from responsibility for the worst and the best
of which humans are capable, we can prepare to say no to extensive
evil - to act accurately, together, and above all in time, before
great harm-doing has become the daily work of 'normal' people.
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