This interesting article touches on a wider problem in education. We are losing "sympathy for the devil", that oldest struggle to keep evil in mind. If polaris

This interesting article touches on a wider problem in education. We are losing "sympathy for the devil", that oldest struggle to keep evil in mind. If polarisation and fear of trauma is allowed to drive the wisdom of Milton's Satan from sight, it allows his greatest trick to prevail; "convincing us that he doesn't exist". Why do we teach Red-Blue team in cybersecurity? Why do good police detectives read murder novels? Why do bomb disposal engineers study a hundred ways to build an IED? Because it "Takes a thief to catch a thief". Without the courage and integrity to go into the darkness nobody can fight for what is good. If students will not dirty themselves with contemplating horror and darkness, how can there be any wise judgement except a prescribed, clinical and dead facsimile of morality? Here, there's no hunger for justice. What I sometimes see - though not as alarmingly as the article suggests is happening in law - is some students of digital security getting reluctant to deep-dive into the nasty side of how vulnerable their devices and digital lifestyles are. If cognitive dissonance makes them too afraid to study terrorism, sabotage, cybercrime and subjects that are vital to us having a healthy defence, we are heading down a road to comfortable helplessness.