Another day, another movie, I guess.  Not only did I see "Revenant" recently, but a movie called "Operation Finale" as well.  "Finale" presents the account of how a group of Israeli secret agents captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Final Solution, then living quietly in Argentina, and returned him to Israel for trial and justice.

     Philosopher Hannah Arendt covered Eichmann's trial and later wrote a book about it her observations (Eichmann in Jerusalem).  In it, she coins a phrase which was to make her internationally famous.  What Eichmann has done, she said, was to establish the "banality of evil."  So blithely did Eichmann talk about his actions, so casually did he view what he was doing to an entire race of people, and so easily did he compartmentalize his doings at work from his life as loving father at home that, to Arendt, he had made evil irretrievably unimportant and trivial:  totally banal.  Eichmann had banished evil.
    While we can disagree on what constitutes the truly evil, most of us acknowledges that it exists.  Once we eliminate even the idea of evil, however, morality becomes a moot point.
     And the world crumbles completely.