Flip through the annals of history (or, heck, today’s newspaper), and you’ll be confronted with atrocities of varying degrees. There are the known names of history that are at the tip of the tongue (e.g., Hitler) and there are the unknowns dotting the multi-planed timeline of history. Most of us imagine ourselves on the side of the just and fair, standing up for others even at personal risk. Most of us are fooling ourselves, which is of course the only logical explanation for how said atrocities occur and repeat again.

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