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> but you can't call it evil when someone refuses to do something no one else does either. So is not evil if a person in germany during the Second World War di
by jQueryIsAwesome 15y ago
> but you can't call it evil when someone refuses to do something no one else does either.
So is not evil if a person in germany during the Second World War discriminated jews rigth?
- gyardley 15y agoYes, jumping right to WWII might be a bit hyperbolic, and the grammar here is a bit shaky, but I'm not sure why this is being downvoted. 'Everybody's doing it' is never an acceptable excuse for bad behavior.
- gujk 15y agoIf everyone is evil, then evilness isn't a disqualifying factor from being a role model. A role model has to be emulable.
- dextorious 15y agoNo, it is not "evil". An act can be "bad", or "injust", but describing it as evil is bullshit. Evil, for one, is a theological term, that doesn't explain anything. It's like saying "the satan made me do it". Like, it wasn't because of being "evil" when people in the US discriminated (and exterminated) Indians and enslaved blacks. They didn't do it because they were "evil people", they did it because their societal norms and prevailing ideology permitted it and even encouraged it. And the norms got such because of catering to various collective interests (like, taking away the indian land, exploiting cheap labor).
- dextorious 15y agoDownvoted? Really? People believe in the theological notion of "evil" around these here parts?