The Nature of Evil

I know it has been awhile since I have posted and I do apologize. As soon as I got home from the UK, however, I immediately had to leave for Iowa for a wedding, then went to Dallas for my sister who had surgery, and then a few days later had to return to Dallas again to be a groomsman in a wedding. Then I proceeded to scour Houston for a job and thankfully I am now employed. Hooray for that one. And its even a law job, can you imagine.
So I just watched the documentary on Enron yesterday and it was definitely eye opening. Of course everyone knows about the corruption at the top and saw the recent convictions of Kenneth Lay and Skilling. But it was certainly interesting to see how these men really were and to hear it from their co-workers. The most shocking thing to me, however, wasn't the behavior of the top guys we all keep hearing about, but the way the energy traders, just regular employees behaved. If you haven't seen the movie, I highly recommend it, but they have telephone conversations between various traders talking about everything from other employees to the energy crisis in California. And man I have to say those are some evil people. And I am someone who usually shies away from the word evil, since it implies there is such a thing when in fact the real world is fuzzy on the matter. But I can honestly say these guys had no care whatsoever for anyone else, to the point they would probably have watched a guy die for fun. When Enron went bankrupt and all its employees lost their pensions and 401(k)s I felt bad for them and thought they had all gotten screwed. Now Im beginning to think it was divine providence. Karma come back to bite the bad people in the ass. Now of course I dont think all the employees deserved to be punished. You can hardly blame the mailroom for the actions of energy traders. But if the mentality shown in the movie was widespread, then I say they got what they deserved. I can hope that maybe some of them even moved away from Houston afterwards. I dont want such bad people polluting my city.