this might sound bad but

by Grendel48

Posted to WritersAndGenres on 2003-11-11 18:49:00

Parent message is 543776
I don’t think you can say Hitler was absolutely evil. His actions, no matter how disgusting they are to us, were motivated by a desire to repair his nation. I don’t want to get into a history debate, so I think it’s enough to say that, with effort, we can envisage an instance where Hitler is not pure evil but acting against the commonly held perception of good. You are making assumptions e dog. You are presupposing that it is wrong to kill. If it is wrong to kill then why don’t we mourn the virus’ we kill ingesting antibiotics? Because human life is more valuable than microscopic life? What makes it so? Of coarse we feel this way because we are human. Our lives have value relative to us. But these things are not absolute and until you can find something which is necessarily evil and precludes all traits of goodness you have not arrived at an absolute of good and evil.
For clarity I AM NOT, making the assertion that Hitler was in any way a good guy.


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