 Eichmann was, as Berkowitz states, "someone convinced that he was sacrificing an easy morality for a higher good".What has emerged following this revisiting of the controversy, is a consensus that whether Arendt was right or wrong about Eichmann, she was correct about the nature of evil, in that events of horror can too easily arise from origins that are mundane.Arendt's depiction of the nature of evil has proved both tenacious and timeless in its relevance.