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When one thinks of evil people \u2014 those destined, in our estimation, for hellfire \u2014 the mind often flies to mass shooters, serial killers, tyrannical despots, and gangsters.<\/p>\n
Are they really\u00a0the<\/em>\u00a0prime ultimate in evil?\u00a0What they do is certainly abhorrent, though when it comes to individual judgment, we\u2019ll let God (Who knows what a person went through and was born with) handle that.<\/p>\n But let\u2019s take a mob hit man: I once wrote a book about the Mafia and in two years of full-time investigation, researched the most dangerous ones in New Jersey. The biggest killers, according to county investigators, state police, and F.B.I. \u2014 the most proficient hit men \u2014 were perhaps responsible, over the course of their careers, for fifteen to twenty-five deaths, mainly fellow mobsters or other criminals.<\/p>\n That\u2019s awful stuff, and there are the serial killers who in some cases are suspected of dozens or even a couple hundred murders. In this case, the victims are ordinary citizens (usually young women). Truly terrible \u2014 a modern-day scourge (and prayer need; pray to prevent the next one; set aside a decade of your Rosary for the unfortunate folks in the news).<\/p>\n But what about \u201csilent,\u201d \u201cinvisible\u201d mass murders who fly under the radar because we don\u2019t even see their victims and often can\u2019t draw connections?<\/p>\n Recently, for example, a family that owns Purdue Pharmaceutical was found to be hiding money in a foreign account \u2014 a billion dollars (they\u2019re \u201cworth\u201d $13 billion) as it faces a slew of lawsuits over its<\/p>\n If they are found guilty, the question becomes: who is a bigger killer, the Sacklers or cartel gangsters (and all serial killer combined through all of history)? Meanwhile, what about the chemical companies that knowingly have produced carcinogens and mutagens causing untold (perhaps\u00a0millions<\/em>) of serious illnesses and deaths? Or the auto manufacturers who knows of defects that could take a life \u2014 but cover such defects up? Are they less sinners than a street criminal because they wear suits and dine at country clubs? And what of pharmaceutical companies, doctors, and hospitals that charge so much many can\u2019t afford critical help? Is it a sin to, say, charge $450\u00a0a month<\/em>\u00a0for a blood thinner when someone is in danger of developing a clot? Is a single surgery really something that should cost $75,000?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/californiahealthline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/09\/BarbaraVanRooyan_01_1350.jpg?w=1024\")
The New York attorney general\u2019s office said on Friday that it had tracked about\u00a0$1 billion in wire transfers by the Sackler family, including through Swiss bank accounts, suggesting that the family, whose company produces OxyContin, tried to shield wealth as it faces a raft of litigation over its role in\u00a0the opioid crisis, which has killed at least 218,000 Americans. Pursue in a major player in the opioid crisis, and lawsuits allege the company \u2014 the Saklers \u2014 were well-aware of the dangers but kept producing the drug.<\/p>\n