This is brilliant caitlin! Regrettably, most of us are like a deer in headlights and never see it coming. I can certainly testify to being blindsided...
I've been saying for a long time that evil has good at an extreme disadvantage because evil doesn't hesitate to use violence to achieve its ends whereas most of us simply want to get by and be decent human beings.
We'll probably part ways though on metaphysics as I'm convinced (as speculation) that the worst offenders here are not human in the biological sense. See HBO's WestWorld to get a hint of what may be going on.