??? I think you were respnding to the author - not to me.

My only response to the author of the piece was that I did not believe that Republicans set out intentionally to be evil.

However, in terms of the defnition of what evil is, I would go with Hannah Arendt's definition of the banality of evil - that people do not set out to be evil, but that their actions sometimes result in evil.

I'm just curious. Is mine the comment that you thought of as 'ridiculous?" Why?