Evil individuals are rare, but are sometimes highly destructive—e.g. Hitler, Stalin, Mao.
This suggests a kind of Black Swan effect: truly evil people are rare, but their impact is disproportionately large.
This can cause a subtle form of bias. Most people never meet an evil person (or don’t realize it if they do) so it is hard for them to truly understand or visualize what evil is. They might believe in evil in some abstract sense, but it remains a theoretical concept detached from any personal experience, like black holes or the ozone layer.
This suggests a kind of Black Swan effect: truly evil people are rare, but their impact is disproportionately large.
This can cause a subtle form of bias. Most people never meet an evil person (or don’t realize it if they do) so it is hard for them to truly understand or visualize what evil is. They might believe in evil in some abstract sense, but it remains a theoretical concept detached from any personal experience, like black holes or the ozone layer.