Reena’s Exploration Challenge #114 — How much evil?

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Reena asked us to choose from a list of questions and answer. This is the one I chose.

“For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do? Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of hatred.”

I wouldn’t have a clue how to answer the other questions because they seem to be more rhetorical than looking for an answer. This one, though, is one I can write to. During the 18 years I worked as a juvenile probation officer, there were things some might call evil that I was willing to do, but I would never say that those acts were acts of hatred.

I still remember sitting in the interview with one of the administrators and the person who would be my immediate supervisor and learning that part of my job would be to put…