WHY DID THEY KILL?
Prof. Alex Hinton
Is evil banal? Even for the most bureaucratically distanced and highly
constrained of perpetrators, like Eichmann and Lor, killing is never
completely banal. We are all enabled and compelled by the contexts in
which we live. We all have multiple motivations. And we invest
psychologically in what we do. Though we might despise them, genocidal
perpetrators are meaning-making beings with complex motivations that
cannot simply be explained away in terms of ideological fanaticism or
obedience to authority (p.297).
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