In the last two seasons, Mandark becomes significantly more evil, becoming Dexter's enemy rather than his rival and his laboratory changing from brightly-lit with rounded features to gothic-looking, industrial, and angular.
Sadly, we saw some of those fighting against evil becoming evil themselves.
And his assurance that "democracy itself" will keep a lesser evil from becoming a "greater evil" should ease our collective conscience when we remember that "either we fight evil with evil or we succumb".
New books are out about fundamentalism and evil, like "When Religion Becomes Evil," by Charles Kimball Harperr San Francisco), and about the psychology of evil, as in "Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing," by James Waller (Oxford University Press).
"What we must fear most is not evil, it is becoming evil ourselves," said Rabbi Barry Starr of Temple Israel in Sharon, Mass., and one of the Jewish, Muslim and Christian clerics leading the multidenominational service.
– but the unsubtle mirroring between good and evil is becoming a bit annoying.
The idea that a bunch of children can fight crime and evil by becoming some kind of human cats is an odd one, but it works very convincingly.
Edwin Lyman, head of the Nuclear Control Institute, a non-proliferation watchdog, said: "Clearly the Bush administration can't deal with this right now, as it needs Iranian help against Iraq "It is a totally cynical policy now, where situations fester because of political convenience, and I think the 'axis of evil' is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy".
Some medieval Christian scholastics such as Bonaventure made a distinction between conscience as a rational faculty of the mind (practical reason) and inner awareness, an intuitive "spark" to do good, called synderesis arising from a remnant appreciation of absolute good and when consciously denied (for example to perform an evil act), becoming a source of inner torment.
A buy-sell can prevent an assortment of evils, like becoming unwilling partners with an owner's heirs, or leaving a surviving spouse illiquid because the remaining owners refuse to buy the survivor's inherited shares.
