Having redefined executioners as heroic sufferers and having stifled his empathy for human suffering, including his own, Eichmann was numb enough to follow his new conscienceAnd this is why we need morality grounded in a transcendent: there are times when our msoral compass is recallibrated by rhetoric, habit or ideology. We need something disruptive and weighty to challenge the Powers' reprogramming of our malleable minds.
The capacity for evil can spread like an epidemic | Elisabeth Young-Bruehl | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
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I recently edited the Masters dissertation of a student who was writing on the way the Dutch Reformed Church responded to crime and violence in South Africa, and found that though they had adopted the rhetoric of the new order, the old p[atterns still shaped their thinking, and perhaps their "conscience", from a white point of view.
That sounds very intriguing. Can you offer a bit more detail of how the old patterns persisted?
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