Armand, Louis de Pointe du Lac and others in “Unfinished Business”

I'm evil, evil as any vampire who ever lived. I've killed over and over and I will do it again. Why does that make you as evil as any vampire? Aren't there gradations to evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf one falls into with the first sin?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I mean, kinda. It's not as logical as you're saying, but it's dark and it's empty, and I can't see the bottom of it.

But if evil is without gradation and it does exist, this state of evil then, only one sin is needed. That's your argument.

[Politely coughs] Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract what is concrete.

Jean-Paul.

Armand.

This is my friend, Louis.

Bonjour. Now, will you two kindly shut up, so I can hear the music, hmm?

Your argument assumes God exists.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I don't know that God exists. From what I saw in the war, he doesn't.

Then surely, there are degrees and variations to goodness? The goodness of the child which is innocence. The goodness of the nun who lives a life of self-deprivation and service. The goodness of the saints, the goodness of the midwives. And how is this evil achieved? How does one fall from grace?