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Evil: Not So Banal

03 Jan 2008 03:30 pm

A new study:

People do great wrong, not because they are unaware of what they are doing but because they consider it to be right. This is possible because they actively identify with groups whose ideology justifies and condones the oppression and destruction of others.

The hardest thing to understand about the Jihadists is that they really believe they are doing good. Even as they murder innocents. That's what God's sanction will do for you.

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