STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: The oddity of human cruelty

MEEKER | I have always been fascinated by contradictions in nature. Fire can both warm a home and burn it to the ground. Water gives life, but it can also drown. Yet the greatest contradiction I have found is not in the world, but in people. Human beings are capable of breathtaking acts of kindness, invention, and beauty, but also of cruelty so deep it feels unnatural. This paradox—how compassion and cruelty can exist within…