1) Peck characterizes evil as a malignant type of self-righteousness in which there is an active refusal to tolerate imperfection; this results in a projection of evil onto innocent victims which is the paradoxical mechanism by which the People of the Lie commit their evil.
2) Evil is described by Peck as "militant ignorance." We are responsible for the reality that we create and we create that reality either with truth or lies. When we create a reality based on lies, only pathology can follow and our reality becomes twisted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Scott_Peck#People_of_the_Lie …
