Questions arose once again at Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court this month, and once again, he gave the same see-no-evil answer.
"If anyone is tempted to do anything evil, the answer will not come in slogans or words, but through the huge numbers of volunteers like the ones in this parade," he said.
You don't answer evil with evil," said a response.
Whence then is evil?" One logical answer is that there is no God.
Shows lined up include Deutschland 83, Belgian comedy drama Clan, French political drama Spin, Argentinean psychological thriller Pure Evil, Sweden's answer to Borgen, Blue Eyes, Afghanistan-set French drama Kabul Kitchen, and Danish supernatural thriller Heartless.
We -- and I mean those of us with the luxury of experiencing horror at second hand, through the mediation of film and television -- hold dearly to certain beliefs about the world: that one person can make a difference, that good can answer evil, that a will produces a way.
Much of her writing engaged the question, "How does large scale evil happen?"; her answer, if distilled to its simplest form, is that evil is a result of a failure on our part to think.
The flustered guests would inquire, "Why, do I have evil spirits?" The answer was always the same: "We have to chase away the evil spirits to be sure they don't come in". As the legend goes, Buddha, the Emperor of the Heavens, called upon the animals to share in the New Year's celebrations, rewarding their loyalty by naming a year after each one in the order they arrived.
