“Wicked”

I’d be very surprised if even 1% of humans are truly “wicked”. To be wicked one would have to be so chronically frightened of life as to sell one’s soul. Those who take advantage of others and amass money and power in order to avoid vulnerability, could be said to be “soulless”. To ensure this level of “safety”, moral constraint must be abandoned and this opens the way to acting wickedly.
For the remaining 99% of us it’s different. We may be scared but not chronically frightened. We put limitations on what we are willing to do to ease our fears. We wouldn’t sell our soul just to feel safer. Would we? All of us probably have a few really deep fears – fear of failure, fear of poverty, fear of abandonment, fear of death etc., but 99%’ers don’t have the monster gene. We might flirt with the devil sometimes, but we aren’t held to any contract, we aren’t trapped. But we may be less than fully conscious of what we do, maybe purposefully underachieving or deliberately not knowing something that is easily knowable to ease our consciences without actually “selling our souls”.
With everything that’s known about animal husbandry today, you’d have to be pretty unaware and insensitive to carry on eating the poor creatures and not feel something. So we act blind sometimes, as if we don’t know. Apparently that’s what JC said when they were hammering in the nails … “They don’t know what they’re doing”.