Huntley and Mao did what evil they could within their own spheres. Mao’s sphere, alas, was the largest population in the world, while Huntley was confined to a small village in England. Only one of them – Mao – got away with it. But both conscientiously did the worst they could.
Sunday, January 02, 2011
The problem of scale
... Evil Be Thou My Evil. (Hat tip, Dave Lull)
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To understand evil is to know how we are complicit with it, every day of our lives.
ReplyDeleteLast paragraph is dynamite.