An Evil Index

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To defeat them, First we must understand them.

- Elie Wiesel

He would know. The word has its uses but to simply brand something evil is a copout in the extreme. As a society we seem to be preoccupied with evil, anything that can be branded evil, like pedophiles suddenly becomes a national obsession. It's the appeal of the simple, the lure of straight path though the fog of moral relativity and complexity. It's the same simplicity that led to some of the worst atrocities in history and most of the banal ones.