{"product_id":"the-evil-of-banality-on-the-life-and-death-importance-of-thinking","title":"The Evil of Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow is it possible to murder a million people one by one? Hatred  fear  madness of one or many people cannot explain it. No one can be so possessed for the months  even years  required for genocides  slavery  deadly economic exploitation  sexual trafficking of children. In The Evil of Banality  Elizabeth Minnich argues for a tragic yet hopeful explanation. Extensive evil  her term for systematic horrific harm-doing  is actually carried out  not by psychopaths  but by people like your quiet next door neighbor  your ambitious colleagues. There simply are not enough moral monsters for extensive evil  nor enough saints for extensive good. In periods of extensive evil  people little different from you and me do its work for no more than a better job  a raise  the house of the family disappeared last week. So how can there be hope? The seeds of such evils are right there in our ordinary lives. They are neither mysterious nor demonic. If we avoid romanticizing and so protecting ourselves from responsibility for the worst and the best of which humans are capable  we can prepare to say no to extensive evil  to act accurately  together  and above all in time  before great harm-doing has become the daily work of normal people.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946175197237,"sku":"ByrdShop_1442276304","price":39.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781442276307.jpg?v=1769927315","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-evil-of-banality-on-the-life-and-death-importance-of-thinking","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}