Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Great Regulars: [Jon Venables] and Robert Thompson murdered James Bulger

simply for kicks, which skates unnervingly close to evil.

Evil deeds, however, are not always committed by evil people. To be a saint, you have to have more than a single good deed under your belt. The same goes for evil. Evil is a way of life devoted to destruction, such as Fred West's. What Venables did was almost wicked but we have no evidence that he would have embarked on a career of carnage had he not been stopped in his tracks.

from Terry Eagleton: London Evening Standard: Jon Venables did wicked things but he is not evil

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