Big Ideas

What does it mean to be evil?


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Are some people born evil?
If modern science could identify ‘evil’ people, would we have the responsibility to remove them from society? What is the difference between evil and merely bad?
On Big Ideas a panel of experts explores the meaning of evil in a contemporary and historic sense.
Evil is often seen as “profound immorality”. Yet at the same our notion of evil varies with culture, century and context.
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Big IdeasBy ABC Radio