Diane Langberg - trauma

 Self-deception functions as a narcotic, numbing us to the damage and danger of our choices. If we engage in such self-delusion long enough, we will, over time, lose our taste for the good and our power to loathe evil.  Once we begin removing our taste for good, our power to hate evil, we only habituate that which causes death. As deception becomes a way of life, evil can be easily practiced by an increasingly dead soul that then becomes presumptuous, planning and actively participating in evil.