Crime’s logical and rational foundations pose the defining moral question of our century

Evidence

The possibility that crime is logical, that “murder has rational foundations,” is “the question put to us by the blood and strife of our century,” Camus insisted. “We are being interrogated.” We may refuse to listen to the question and to console ourselves with the eternity of evil and perpetuity of murder only at our peril; and first and foremost peril to our humanity, which is, in its innermost essence, our nonanimality, the ethicality of our being. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 374

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Arendt’s ‘banality of evil’ debate and the broader question of bureaucratized mass murder as rational — links to the argument in my library that ideology and administrative rationality, not passion, drove genocide.