Bad Apples, Bad Barrels and Bad Barrel-Makers
Why Evil Exists
7 min readOct 28, 2021
“The line between good and evil lies at the center of every human heart. It is not an abstraction out there. It’s a decision you have to make every day inside.” — Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian poet imprisoned under Stalin
“You can’t be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar barrel.” — Phil Zimbardo, social psychologist
