Society’s Naivety of Evil

Slowly evolving from the days of ‘black and white, wrong and right’ of the 40s and 50s; our society has become filled with vast notions and explanations for just why a person would act in a way seen as ‘evil.’ Whether it be via psychological analysis or simply unjustifiable motivations, we as a culture struggle to understand. Just as people in the renaissance age convinced themselves the world was square, people today have also been convinced by our own inflated ego and perceived self-superiority of knowledge in the ever present struggle to generate a reason for everything. This is, simply put, a modern day display of human ignorance. Perhaps not simply ignorance but rather the choice to be consumed by other options rather than the indelible truth: whether born or learned, human beings can and will have ill willed tendencies. This is one fact society will always deny and erect shields against; shields such as ‘mental abnormality’ and ‘unjustifiable motives,’ anything to...