Does Evil Exist in the Context of Abuse? Research Says Yes
Can you commit evil without being evil? Hannah Arendt grappled with this when she witnessed Adolf Eichmann’s trial and coined the phrase ‘the banality of evil.’ But domestic abuse perpetrators aren’t thoughtless bureaucrats. Don Hennessy’s research shows they’re strategic, calculating, and fully aware. The question isn’t whether evil exists in abuse. It’s whether we have the courage to call it by its real name.