We have become so wired to expect bad things from bad people — the evildoers — that we often miss how good people can also do bad things. Not intentionally, perhaps, but as an automatic reaction to specific situations. 

There is plenty evidence globally that good people and organisations with good intentions do make bad and disastrous decisions, often with some people in these organisations being aware of the impending catastrophe but doing nothing about it. ..

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