[DuncanWaring]

The Germans, as an obvious example, were perhaps the most highly cultured people in the world in the 1930s.

If you had gone around in 1912 telling people that in 30 years the Germans would be shoveling people into incinerators by the trainload, you would have gotten a life sentence in an insane asylum.

[Sherman Logan]

Yep. All very sad.

Leads me to think intelligence, or education, or “culture” are no inherent innoculation against evil.

All having them means is that if you fall into evil you are likely to perform it in intelligent, educated or cultured ways.

This is, BTW, a huge swipe at leftism, which assumes without any evidence at all that any human problem can be solved by “more education.” Kind of like “more cowbell.”