History shows that evil is often less a grand design than the byproduct of ordinary negligence. Hannah Arendt called it the “banality of evil” — Eichmann sending millions to death not out of demonic hatred but bureaucratic obedience. Psychologists like Stanley Milgram demonstrated how everyday people, given orders, would administer lethal shocks rather than resist […]
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Ordinary Evil
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