Musings on Evil

[gfish]

So, I'm in Denver on a bioterrorism related business trip. And I've been hanging out with xmurf and randomdreams a lot.

Conversation eventually turned to various evil ways to abuse the things we know. Duh.

But it got me thinking. Some very evil things seem pretty easy to do, yet they've never actually been done. Why? Are they harder to do than they seem? Are people not actually as evil as I think? Or is there some reason that people capable of really evil acts are just not competant?

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[xiadyn.livejournal.com]

Maybe the way brains work makes it difficult to be both evil and effective at the same time, the same way that most serial killers thwart themselves?