ABSTRACT
My point of departure is that the modus operandi of the killings that took place in Bosnia 1992–1995 seems to fly in the face of the correlation between proximity and morality, and between distance and immorality, that Bauman argued for in his book. This raises a number of questions to do with the extent to which Bauman’s thesis can be generalised beyond the case of the Holocaust, as well as the most basic question of them all, namely whether Bauman got it right about the mechanisms leading to large-scale evildoing.
