Kenneth McKendrick

And so a colleague of mine, Darlene Drushka, in one of the classes she was teaching, she was a novel Dracula,

This is a fantastic novel by Bram Stoker.

But one of the things that I found to be most striking about the novel Dracula is that all of these good characters come together and they have a job to do.

And they have this really weird experience with Count Dracula.

Then they decide they're going to kill this guy.

So he comes over to England and they just obliterate him.

They decide that he's an abomination and they decide to totally destroy him.

And they even go out of their way in order to hide what they're doing from the police and from attorneys and lawyers and stuff like this and other medical professionals.

And so I thought, okay, I love the novel, right?

And in the context of the novel, Dracula is a demon.

There's no doubt.

He is murdering people.

Like he's horrific.

He is an abomination.

But thinking about the process of how they went from this is a human being to this is an abomination that we are going to eliminate from the world, I found curious.

And so that was sort of the question that I began this sort of journey about.

Thinking about evil is like, and even though it's a novel, it's like, how did these folks

get to the point where they realize that something had to be obliterated.

And they didn't bring them to court, right?

They didn't say, we think that you've done some really bad things.