On the Solitary Task of Watching People Call Each Other Evil
Critical thinking skills don’t stand a chance against evil.
I used to think that I only saw it on Twitter (Sorry, I’m just not going to call it “X” yet). In any interaction between adversaries, the cheap shot is to call the other guys “evil”. If they say something we don’t like, they’re “evil”. If they do unspeakable horrors, they’re evil. If they sit on the sidelines and watch other people be evil, goddammit, they’re “evil”, too.
Now I see it in the news, too. Most of the time, I only cruise the headlines for the stuff that some people do to each other. The details are just too much to bear.
I don’t need the details on how some guy killed his family and then himself. I don’t need the details on how someone just pleaded guilty to raiding the retirement fund for a company with hundreds of workers, and those workers had nothing else. I don’t need to know everything about why a defense contractor defrauded the government out of millions of dollars.
Yes, we could call all that evil and more. Most of the time, “evil” is implied in the accusations hurled at the target. I see people calling Trump evil every day, all day. Same with Biden and Kamala. Same with murderers, thugs, grifters and hackers.
