Is the stigma of human evil a true moralistic stereotype?

Roberto da Silva Rocha, university professor and political scientist

Is the stigma of human evil a true moralistic stereotype?

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He had to be crazy, or psychopath, a paranoid, never one like us, so we can accept that a person like Adolf Hitler can be understood as a non-human and non-civilized being.

I'm tired of hearing these delusional explanations about the great evils that a human being is capable of doing, even if he is normal just like any of us.

During a reading of the holy bible in any of the five versions, from the Somali with 83 books, or the Orthodox with 78 books, or the Apostolic Catholic with 76 books or the Lutheran with 73 books, or the Protestant with 66 books throughout the old testament all sin and error comes from within the human being, but in the new testament we have an introduction of a spiritual being called the devil who is responsible for the temptation of the human being and makes the human being commit all kinds of evils and evils .

Phew! How many excuses do we need to simply justify the belief that evil cannot be practiced by people considered good or normal?

I'm not excluding neuro and psychopathological who are sociopathic psychopaths with no empathy for the pain of another human being, these exist and are diagnosed.

But when we are faced with a brutal crime committed by people who look like us, we are baffled and soon attribute some pathology to why good people don't do bad things, and bad people don't do good things.

It is bizarre to say that once in Águas Lindas de Goiás I was at a bus stop on a public holiday when the people of that very poor city in 2006 were getting ready to fill the buses departing from there to the Plano Piloto in Brasília. where they were looking for leisure for their families, and one of the families caught my attention, a young boy and his wife with their three small children, and someone from my side told me that that boy was just one of the most dangerous robbers in Águas Lindas de Goiás, with that I asked myself perplexed: uai, murderers have families, and they take care of them with the same affection as he carried his baby in his arm and kissed his wife or partner with such affection.

It is the stereotypes of good and evil that our moralistic society tries to justify that evil is a way of life of stigmatized psychopaths who are not like us humans.

Roberto da Silva Rocha, professor universitário e cientista político