Rethinking Evil

Serial killers. Serial rapists. Sexual predators. Parents who serially abuse their kids. Kids who serially abuse their parents. These are people who are doing evil things. Not simply criminal. Stealing a bag of potato chips from a corner store is criminal, not evil. Walking into a corner store, raping the cashier and stabbing her seven times, then going home, cleaning up, and sitting down for dinner with your family…now that is evil.

Over the past several weeks, I have been gorging on true-crime podcasts and television shows. My favorite is a documentary series on the Investigation Discovery channel…