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Eichmann in Jersalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Eichmann in Jersalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

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  7. setyourspiritfree said: Everyone interested in this should read Becoming Evil by James Waller. :)
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