If I had to choose one person out of these eight who’s views on evil I agree with most, I would have to choose Kanan Makiya. He believes that evil is something human. It is beyond something “very bad,” and is hard to put into words. I agree with this because evil is truly an unexplainable force. We cannot define evil, because evil is different for every person. Looking at the September 11th events, Makiya says that the hijackers took evil to an extreme. However, we can not say this, because for the hijackers, they did not see evil, they saw their acts full of righteousness.
Makiya also describes evil as “something that, when you see it, when you know it, it’s intimate. It’s almost sensual.” I agree with this point, because I see evil as a force in the world. Not a person such as Osama bin Laden or an object can be evil, and sometimes not even an “evil” action. It is this force that is unique to each human on earth, which is our own sense of evil.
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