ABSTRACT
Rowlands provides striking examples of the pain caused by electric shock for a wolf and for dogs. He then discusses the nature of moral evil, arguing that such evil does not reside only in a failure to protect those whom you have a duty to protect or in the entertaining of “fundamentally stupid” beliefs. In addition, it requires that the victim be helpless. Rowlands maintains that humans are uniquely evil, in that we make things weak so that we may treat them badly.
