Pilarcraft wrote:Y e a h. If we call people who support genocide evil, normal people might drive into supporting genocide too.Ostroeuropa wrote:
Not particularly, and that's the kind of talk that makes it difficult to actually address the issue and understand the environment that leads normal people into supporting genocide.
That's the point about supporting genocide. It automatically makes you evil.
The Germans in the ww2 may not have all been evil, but the nazis? they were evil precisely because they were nazis.
This is the kind of thing that makes people less guarded about racism because nobody thinks of themselves as evil. To reduce the behavior of the nazis to "evil" is ignoring the reasons and environment and so on that led to them acting that way.
Evil is not a useful concept.