“Are you evil? I doubt it. Nobody sees himself as the bad guy. . . . In the real world, evildoers see themselves as good people doing good things or good people forced to do difficult things because of special circumstances, or, at worst, good people who are forced, tricked, or goaded into doing bad things, against the grain of their fine characters.”

Paradoxically, our innate moral sense also plays a central role in our immoral acts.