{"id":27,"date":"2005-03-06T15:45:46","date_gmt":"2005-03-06T15:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2005\/03\/06\/evil-an-investigation\/"},"modified":"2008-10-26T16:46:53","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T23:46:53","slug":"evil-an-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2005\/03\/06\/evil-an-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Evil: An Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-27\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0465047556\/ref=lpr_g_2\/002-5199987-5973613?v=glance&amp;s=books\" target=\"NewWindow\">Evil: An Investigation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong>Lance Morrow<\/li>\n<li><strong>Softcover: <\/strong>276 Pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Basic Books (September 30, 2004)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>0465047556<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I liked this book &#8211; I read it in about a week of commuting.  Some of the reviews on Amazon complain that the author doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\ndefine evil.  I believe that was his point, that evil is beyond definition.  Try to define good or perfect; its not possible except by using its opposite, in this case perhaps good or beauty or&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica;\">The examples are numerous.  They include the Nazis (of course), Pol Pot, Josef Stalin, and a few serial murders. Interesting, quite a bit is described of evil to children and the infirm, as such behavior seems to be more evil, if such a construction can be made, than the, er, run of the mill evil.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-27\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 27);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-27\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-27\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Evil: An Investigation Author: Lance Morrow Softcover: 276 Pages Publisher: Basic Books (September 30, 2004) ISBN: 0465047556 I liked this book &#8211; I read it in about a week of commuting. Some of the reviews on Amazon complain that the author doesn&#8217;t define evil. I believe that was his point, that evil is beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}