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Hannah Arendt

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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Many harmful actions happen because people fail to actively choose to act morally or immorally, instead drifting without clear intention. This indecision allows evil to occur not from deliberate cruelty but from a lack of commitment to doing what is right.

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