December 14, 2012

How Do You Measure Evil?

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The killing of 20 schoolchildren in Newtown, Connecticut has shocked a nation that had become numb to violence. Is it even possible to make sense of such a horrendous crime? Michael Stone, a forensic psychiatrist at Columbia University has devised a 22-point “scale of evil” to try to do just that.

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