Watching BP try to plug the biggest oil spill in history while staging photo ops for the media feels like watching a new definition of evil unfold — until the realization sets in that we’re likely watching the death of a company. “Evil” has been used to describe Microsoft, and Google wrote it into its mission statement as something it wouldn’t do. Little did anyone realize that its definition of “evil” was whatever it currently wasn’t doing. Apple has started doing some things that I think solidly cross the line as well. In the shadow of BP, an exploration of evil seems appropriate.
