Book of the Week: Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing,

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Humans have committed great evil against each other over the course of millennia, often in the name of religion but also often in the context of secular ideologies — especially during the 20th century. Such evil is not the standard means by which people relate to one another because we are usually quite a bit more civil and kind to one another. How is it that kindness is left behind and heinous barbarism develops — especially among those whose religion ostensibly promotes kindness as a virtue?

Book of the Week: Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing,