Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ourselves the death of Rabin? How can we understand fate's logic, when an assassin slays a man who has abandoned the methods of war, precisely because he has abandoned those methods? Our realism only extends so far--we are willing to accept that good can come out of evil; how much more cruel and intolerable it is to acknowledge that evil comes out of good...
...trial process, I have really wanted to believe that it is better for one guilty man to go free than for an innocent man to be wrongly convicted. However, Simpson's post-trial behavior is starting to make me think that wrongful convictions might be a necessary evil in order to make sure every criminal is punished Arriving at this conclusion sickens me but seeing Simpson enjoy a such a Lavish and foolish life sickens me more...
...tormented Zimans and at the same time triumph over the fateful malignity of the relentless cop, remains the central question, for Lelouch as for Hugo. But this is not, finally, a movie that encourages such abstract considerations. It is all shameless pace and jostle, a compendium of evil (war, suicide, poverty, injustice, exploitation) that yet asks us to believe that common decency (and a strong back) can eventually triumph over it. Maybe so, maybe not. But how pretty it is to believe it may. And how pleasurable it is to be absorbed into the bloodstream of this movie...
...downside to this shedding of specific values is concisely identified by Andrew Delbanco in his new book The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil: "Americans once believed in God and in Satan; they were known to be obsessed with sin, and they pictured their own history as an epic struggle with evil. Today, however, while the repertoire of evil seems never to have been richer, as we daily encounter (and even relish) images of unimaginable horror, our grasp on the reality of evil nonetheless seems week and uncertain, our responses to it flustered and sometimes...
Such longueurs flaw the book, but not fatally. Sereny has probably captured Speer's aloof, elusive persona as well as any writer could. She also usefully reminds that Hitler, for all the evil he inflicted, was not a cartoon monster but a man with immense charisma and even some charm. Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth has a rightful place in any library of writings about the Third Reich...