When I was young, the product of Calvinist schooling, I thought good and bad people were two separate things; the good guys fought the bad guys at some proverbial High Noon in a shootout between the just and the wicked.

Only later when I understood the complex, paradoxical nature of humans, I came to appreciate what the Russian historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn meant in his Nobel address One word of truth: “If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But, the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being and who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart.”