In the book Naked Empire, a powerful wizard has sealed a pristinely ungifted people in an isolated territory where they are kept from contact from the rest of humanity. "For this reason, they rejected the concept of evil for fear they would have to judge someone. Judging someone as evil meant they would have to face the problem of removing them from their midst." This is happening today on university campuses, as supposedly enlightened people refuse to classify as evil people who target and kidnap babies, kill them with their mothers, torture elderly holocaust survivors, and so on. These enlightened people refuse to denounce Hamas as evil, as terrorists, lest their scholarly paradigms collapse. And as the pristinely ungifted people in Naked Empire were so dangerous, so to are those who refuse to see evil in our contemporary, non-fictional world.
"For this reason, they rejected the concept of evil for fear they would have to judge someone. Judging someone as evil meant they would have to face the problem of removing them from their midst."
This is happening today on university campuses, as supposedly enlightened people refuse to classify as evil people who target and kidnap babies, kill them with their mothers, torture elderly holocaust survivors, and so on. These enlightened people refuse to denounce Hamas as evil, as terrorists, lest their scholarly paradigms collapse. And as the pristinely ungifted people in Naked Empire were so dangerous, so to are those who refuse to see evil in our contemporary, non-fictional world.