Allie Ward

We could say greedily deceitful, felonious, sexually predatory, but isn't language elastic?

So all these labels, so many adjectives, so many facts obscured when this vague notion of evil crops up instead.

Yes, people have asked about that.

Okay, yeah.

Tracks.

I mean, aren't they kind of vampires taking blood in gestation and aren't vampires evil?

So thus, can a baby be?

Vampires are like, I never said I was vegan.

So it's on you.

But back to all the times I've called something evil.

Let's hear it.

I'm trying to be more conscious.

Malicious, perhaps.

Or I guess there's such a spectrum between selfish or malicious or deceptive or deceitful.

I suppose there are so many adjectives we could use.

Well, I'm wondering because potato chips and asbestos didn't always exist in lecture halls, and we didn't know about bacteria, and we didn't know about traumatic brain injury or calcium channels or lead and all of these things that might biologically or sociologically cause someone to do harm to another.

So as we learn more about behavior and choices and systems in place,

Are we looking at evil a little bit differently because it's not quite so mystical?

Well, I have questions from listeners.

May I ask them?