-- "James A. Donald" wrote:
That the nazis tended to murder anyone including their fellow nazis, and commies tended to murder anyone including their fellow commies, is an objective fact, capable of being true or false.
That normal people do not tend to murder anyone, but only those that really do threaten them, is also an objective fact capable of being true or false. From such objective facts, we can determine that the nazis really were objectively evil.
At 11:44 AM 12/27/2000 +0100, Tom Vogt wrote:
*IF* killing people (this way) is the definition of evil, and there is no other way to be evil but by being a murderer, *THEN* you are perfectly right.
I am merely using murder as the most extreme and unambiguous form of harm. The word "evil" has two senses. Harm suffered (morally neutral sense of the word "evil") and harm unjustifiably and willfully done, or the danger of such harm. (Moral sense of the word "evil") Situations often arise where it is not obvious what is "unjustifiable" and "willful", where such judgments are necessarily subjective, but in most of the cases that we care about, most of the time, it is perfectly objective. Someone is going about his own business, and out of the blue, someone robs him, assaults him, or someone denounces him as a class enemy, race enemy, class traitor, race traitor, etc. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 2b+rEh2sUmsbu7gKB3b5R54ObUVgCN2AUrNdNY0a 4eDYGULs/oewZgglw6c1M17S4HGW+43VCEjOse7Ia