# Only Humans Can Plan Evil Knowing the Harm by Jane Goodall > “I’ve personally decided that only humans are capable of true evil, because we can deliberate and do it knowing the harm we’re inflicting.” > **— Jane Goodall**, *“Can Animals Be Evil?”, Why Are We Here? interview* ## Sources and Context - **Original interview and transcript:** [“Can Animals Be Evil?” in Jane Goodall’s *Why Are We Here?* interview](https://www.whyarewehere.tv/people/jane-goodall/). The site prints this complete sentence as a clip introduction; the turn-by-turn transcript separates its clauses with an interviewer interjection. Goodall defines “true evil” here through deliberation and knowledge of harm, while explicitly describing chimpanzees as capable of care and severe aggression. This is her moral interpretation of the comparison, not an experimental demonstration that no other animal can foresee harm. Queue candidates HA-001 and HA-002 are the two shorter parts of this one statement. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] - **Article:** [[articles/Walking the Beautiful Path Through the Greatest Transformation in Human History|Walking the Beautiful Path Through the Greatest Transformation in Human History]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Human Animality|Human Animality]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Jane Goodall|Jane Goodall]] - [[wiki/Human Animality|Human Animality]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “I’ve personally decided that only humans are capable of true evil, because we can deliberate and do it knowing the harm we’re inflicting.” — Jane Goodall, “Can Animals Be Evil?”, Why Are We Here? interview https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-goodall-evil-knowing-harm ```