Month: May 2025

Life in general, and perhaps the Pursuit of Happiness

On the Nature of Evil and Empathy

I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about the definition of “evil.” Most times, when we talk about it, it feels big, supernatural, connected to religious stories or mythical figures. Or we point to the extremes – serial killers, historical tyrants. But placing evil only in these far-off or larger-than-life places makes it …