Have you ever heard of hot and cold evil? A few years ago a friend introduced me to the concept. Hot evil, he said, was the kind that outraged most people immediately. Examples might be a violent crime against innocent children, or an attempt at genocide. Cold evil was far more insidious--the kind of evil that many of us have participated in through apathy or seeming powerlessness. What Adolf Hitler did to the Jewish people and other minorities was hot evil. Those who were aware of that atrocity and participated in it by doing nothing took part in cold evil. This philosophy and idea poses the question, is one evil worst than the other? Surely they were both horrible. Of course, the perpetrator of evil i View the rest of this article
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