> It's not about knowing they kill people and such. It's about believing that the cause justifies it, which most of them did So you're only evil if you don't b

> It's not about knowing they kill people and such. It's about believing that the cause justifies it, which most of them did So you're only evil if you don't believe in an evil cause? :) Plus, joining Waffen SS wasn't just about "killing" - this could be said about Wehrmacht. The SS (I mean proper SS, not the foreign SS units that were formed under auspices of the SS because only citizens of the Third Reich were legible to join the army) were, by and large, death squads. They specialized in mass killings of civilians and other atrocities, and it's not a coincidence that Waffen-SS was later - during the Nuremberg Trials - considered a criminal organization, while the regular army wasn't. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obersalzberg_Speech#/media/File:Hitler_Armenian_Quote.JPG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obersalzberg_Speech#/media/File... There is a reason why their symbol was a death's head (Totenkopf). The purpose of these troops was explicit. That's why you can't really compare it with modern soldiers that invade Iraq or whatever (I'm not saying that all such invasions are justified or that no atrocities are ever committed). > People actually making an "evil moral choice" are not that many -- aside from Hollywood evil masterminds. By your definition - quite so, and this is exactly why I feel that this definition of an evil moral choice is nothing but moral relativism, or even nihilism in thin disguise, and ethically useless.