Journalist Jean-Louis Bordeleau reminded us, in his most recent text, of the horror of anti-personnel mines. Mines which are often taken for toys and which also mutilate children, which in no way takes away, here, the suffering of the other victims.
How engineers, educated people, therefore, perhaps parents too, can they conceive, without qualms, these diabolical devices? We join here, I believe, the banality of evil, explained by the philosopher Hannah Arendt. These engineers blindly obey the company that hires them, ideological conformity, political authority and their salary by designing an object, perhaps a part, with a number, giving them the illusion that they are not doing nothing bad. And these people pay their taxes and probably go to mass on Sunday to be told that God, who is goodness and mercy, will triumph over evil and the devil, when, come to think of it, maybe the demons are sitting there, on the pews, dressed in the disguise of normality, but able to invent objects that can bring hell on earth.
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