Because it highlights real world evil.
I guess I chose to post this one because it’s a system evil. More particularly, it’s a system evil which abuses the poor because the poor are easiest to abuse.
In computer software, it’s a recognized fact that unless quality is explicitly designed and maintained, it won’t just evolve. You have to plan it in and put lots of effort and energy into the system or you get a big bunch of chaos.
The same is true for moral quality.
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Closer to home, the film, H2Oil, shows the effects of the oil sands projet on the community of Fort Chip. I visited in that community in 1968 and saw poverty like nowhere else in Canada. Can we clean up our own backyard?
Of course this story is well categorized. We’re all subject to the Law of Entropy–that’s the downside of the human condition. We also have the choice to take a stand against evil, rescuing one starfish at a time.