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You're missing the point. It's not that genocide is sometimes good, it's that civilizations that commit genocide also do good things. The Germany that produced
by seldo 17y ago
You're missing the point. It's not that genocide is sometimes good, it's that civilizations that commit genocide also do good things.
The Germany that produced the Jewish holocaust also invented rocket science, which indirectly led us to the space program, satellites, and a big chunk of our modern communications network.
Does this excuse genocide? No. Does it make it difficult to label German civilization as "all good" or "all bad"? It absolutely does.
- tfh 17y ago>The Germany that produced the Jewish holocaust also invented rocket science.. You get into trouble by saying that in Germany my friend :)
- mahmud 17y agoToday's Germany is a fictitious entity, a comedic prop setup by a philosophe prankster.
- oconnor0 17y agoTrue, and the article is a little simplistic on that front, but a modern communications network does not morally justifies the holocaust. Neither does making lots of money & whatever else the Unobtainium was going to do justify wholesale slaughter & genocide of the Na'vi.
- seldo 17y agoBut that's exactly what I said. It doesn't excuse the holocaust. But it also makes it hard to say that Germany in the 1940s was an evil regime that contributed nothing to the world. Both are true: they were evil bastards, and they gave us rocket science. The real world is tricky like that.
- borism 17y agoAnd I thought rocket science was invented by chinese (like pretty much everything else).
- ippisl 17y agoI would label those technological advances in a different dimensions than moral acts. And usually the meaning of bad and good regards morals , not other fields of human behaviour. And since as a nation their positive moral acts was so little relative to their negative moral actions you can call them "bad".