On Why, Seriously, Why
Published February 14, 2019
In 1945, esteemed American psychologist Captain G. M. Gilbert was assigned to the Nuremberg trials:
“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
— Captain G. M. Gilbert