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“Evil begins with the human capacity to talk oneself into. Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. Cruelty is the result of talking oneself into the infliction of pain or into the conscious ignoring of pain already inflicted. The wolf doesn't talk itself into anything.” —John Berger (1989)