> true evil can only be if the actor knows and intends harm Between born psychopaths who seemingly can't even empathize with current or future victims https://

> true evil can only be if the actor knows and intends harm Between born psychopaths who seemingly can't even empathize with current or future victims https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thinking-about-kids/201205/psychopaths-children-and-evil https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thinking-about-kids/..., and criminal rational choice theory http://criminal-justice.iresearchnet.com/criminology/theories/rational-choice-theory/ http://criminal-justice.iresearchnet.com/criminology/theorie... which posits that even most of a criminal's willful acts are rational given their circumstance and motivations, I don't think there's a tremendous amount of room left for "true evil". I can't help wondering if history will look back on most of what we see today as "willful evils", instead as "misunderstood tragedies"... see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman whose tower sniping was initiated by... a brain tumor. The truest evil IMHO is that committed by people who believe they are doing good (but perhaps are "making the tough decision"): see the Nazis.