From the Summit of the Moral High Ground

Perhaps one of the most important things I have learned from my experiences with the Jersey justice system is that evil does not necessarily look like evil. That may sound like an obvious statement. But it is not. We tend to imagine evil as something obvious. We imagine somebody who knows that what they are doing is wrong and does it anyway. We imagine cruelty. We imagine hatred. We imagine somebody deliberately setting out to cause harm. But I have come to believe that some of the most dangerous forms of evil arise when people genuinely believe that what they are doing is good. The Good Person Most people do not wake up in the morning and decide that they are going to do something evil. They wake up believing that they are good people. They go to work. They do their jobs. They follow the procedures. They answer their emails. They attend their meetings. They make decisions. And they go home believing that they have done what was expected of them. They ...