Ordinary Men
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We would all like to think that there is something that separates good people from evil people. We would all like to think that there is nothing that would make us behave like the people that we read about in our history books - people who slaughter the innocent, people who butcher children, people who kill not to protect their own lives or even to defend abstract concepts like glory and nation but out of a seeing glee to see the blood of other stain their hands and coat the streets.But Christopher Browning, in his book Ordinary Men, suggests (and his research is of course not the only work to confirm this) that while there may be some people who are in fact very different from the rest of us (schizophrenics, for example, whose reality is not bounded by the same rules that govern others' lives) there is no easy way to sort those who are good from those who are evil. The potential for both good and evil lies within each one of us, Browning argues, and in most of us lies the potential for very great
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