TY - BOOK AU - Bauman,Zygmunt AU - Donskis,Leonidas TI - Moral blindness : the loss of sensitivity in liquid modernity SN - 9780745662756 AV - BT33 .B38 2013 U1 - 170 22 PY - 2013/// CY - Cambridge PB - Polity Press KW - Indifferentism (Religion) KW - Apathy KW - Social ethics KW - Adiaphora N2 - Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them and in the casual turning away of one’s ethical gaze. Evil and moral blindness lurk in what we take as normality and in the triviality and banality of everyday life, and not just in the abnormal and exceptional cases. The distinctive kind of moral blindness that characterizes our societies ER -