it's easy to go 'oh, sure is fucked up this nice man turned out to have been a monster all along. weird how that keeps happening' and walk away from the much more difficult possibility that it's not that some people are inherently evil or might at any moment be struck by a cosmic ray and turn so, but rather that there're mechanisms in ou're society that promote, reward, and conceal monstrous behaviour; that it's not the exception but the norm