don’t generally roll off the tongue together. What is evil anyway? Philosophers have provided a good few definitions mostly based on some kind of conscious or deliberate wrongdoing.
Yesterday at the craft fair, and not for the first time, I felt that some kinds of stupidity fit into the evil category: the hectoring manager demanding personal empathy but giving none herself; the late coming stallholder who, after making me move three times, got a ‘for God’s sake’ from me, then proceeded to verbally berate me for ‘being rude’.
She was lucky I was too tired to give her the ear bashing she deeply deserved. But was she or rather were her actions ‘evil’? Evil is akin to ignorance – and she was certainly ignorant. Continue reading
