Destructive Personalities

When this subject was assigned to us we felt both perplexed and bothered by its implications. We accepted its challenge notwithstanding, with the idea that at least it might provide an opportunity to consider certain fallacies which are as misleading as they are widely accepted. The first of these is the implication that evil is the work of evil men. One well might wish that the problem were that simple. Unfortunately, however, Hell is not paved with bad intentions. This is well known; yet so universal is the need to indulge in righteous indignation, that even scientists forget that men of conscious and deliberate malevolence are rare, and that the most destructive forces may be loosed by men of seemingly gentle disposition

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