The punishment for rejecting what is good is eventually losing the ability to recognize the evil of one’s own reasoning.
The frightening thing about a darkened mind is not that it wakes every morning plotting evil while twirling a theatrical mustache. It is that evil begins to look reasonable. Categories become inverted. Killing becomes health care, and economic productivity becomes part of the case for it.
An argument that should horrify us begins to sound like respectable public policy.
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