ABSTRACT
The specific lower-case ‘evil’ that Adi Ophir refers to at the end of this dreadfully familiar litany, then becomes for Ophir a category which he capitalises as Evil, that is Evil itself. A category that all but the most reductive thinkers might recognise through the staggering breadth and depth of Ophir’s work on the ontology of morals, as having been earnt. This is not some base-line knee-jerk swerve around complexity by way of avoiding subtle characterisations of wrong-doers through history, but the awful truth that stares one in the face when each of the previous manifestly preventable stages of a logics of Evil have been played out. Some court cases in their chronology have traces of such evils at work, cultural cruelty in their arrangements, but few are quite as stark as those that mark Chris Goldscheider’s ‘fight’ for justice in the High Court.
