Humdrum, Everyday Badness

♦ 30 June , 2021 ♦ 1 Comment

 “(There) are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no.”  ~Lord Vetinari,  in Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett, ©1989

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  1. markonit
    16 July , 2021 – 17:06

    …this is also the banality of evil, sin, or any other inhumane or depraved act perpetuated on a living being…

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