Her "banality of evil" thesis rests on the premise that Eichmann committed his deeds with no awareness of their evil, not even with virulent anti-Semitism.
But that kind of faith in the goodness of people, even those who have committed evil deeds, is dismissed in many quarters of South Africa.
"During the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ," he said, stating a truth that one would think only the half crazy could dispute.
He also returned to criticism of the president's National Prayer Breakfast remarks, in which Obama said Christians during the Crusades and Inquisition had "committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.
As a forensic psychiatrist at New York University Medical Center, Dr. Sasha Bardey is often sought out to evaluate people who have committed horrible deeds, like Andrew Goldstein, who pushed Kendra Webdale to her death in front of a subway train last year.
To be precise, Barack Obama told a National Prayer Breakfast:Lest we get on our high horse and think this [violence in the name of religion] is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.
"Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ," the president said.
Detaining those who have not yet committed overt deeds that warrant prosecution also allows pre-emptive action to be taken to neutralize threats before they materialize into actual harm.
During the encounter, Kakashi learns that Tobi is Obito, who in fact had survived his apparent death and had committed horrible deeds since Rin's death to destroy the world order that allowed their friend's demise to occur.
"Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ," Obama stated.
