Oh, how the mighty are fallen

The various turns life has taken aren't easy to explain. There are so many shades of the things that happened.

Worldview. A person's worldview is supposed to be respected and everything, because it constitutes a large part of who they are, and if you want to respect a person, you have to be able to at least appreciate their worldview.

Of course, the word "appreciate" is kind of sludgy. I can "appreciate" rap music because it's rhythmically interesting, even though there are words and images in the lyrics that I find vulgar and disgusting, even frightening. But you can also "appreciate" the fact that Hitler was a political mastermind, even though he was evil; and you can "appreciate" the fact that Jeffrey Dommer got away with so many murders because he was so very clever, even though he was evil.

I am sick of working and I'm sick of being sick.

I watched a documentary called, "The Science of Evil," (that's why what with the Hitler and Dommer bit above). Like any PBS documentary, it drew no real conclusions, but brought to the light a few facts that I hadn't really considered before.
The documentary outlined three main examples of evil: Jeffrey Dommer (as told through his pastor), Dr. Zimbardo's famous study, and the current (2006) crimes against civilians being committed in the Congo (also mentioning Abu Ghraib and Hitler often).
The "conclusions" the documentary came to were that evil is never innate, it is situational. Evil is not a force in itself, it is the result of imbalances of power, and the tumult that follows.