Adams and Balfour’s paper follows one of the most shameful revelations about the US Military crusade in their fight of terrorism. In the midst of a battlefield, the US set up a military prison full of those with moderate experience and expertise and minimal training and vague directions on intense directives. There was immense pressure to perform and provide lifesaving information. In the middle of a war-zone with thousands dying, there is not the luxury of time or a relaxing work environments. All of the factors that culminated to produce Abu Ghraif were innocent exclusively. Nevertheless, when these factors coalesce with a stressful situation it led to the evolution of torturing for information. The vague rules that the military provided …show more content…
They continue to say that this evil is on a continuum scale, implying there are different levels of “evil” that one could be; however, even if one is on the lower end of spectrum there are still consequences because “the road of evil begins with seemingly small acts of wrong doing”. Their definition of evil is important because it colors how they view technical rationality. In their paper, Adams and Balfour define it as a hyper scientific and analytical approach to administrative decisions. Ultimately this removes consideration of morals and ethics in favor of procedure that are the most effectual and proficient progression of the policy. This has disastrous consequences when it occurs wide scale in a turbulent time with an authoritarian government. The most notable example of administrative evil is that of Adolf Eichmann, who the train operator was during the Holocaust. During the Final Solution he transported thousands of Jews to their deaths. At his trial in Israel he claimed that he was just following orders. Moral inversion had become Eichmann’s