"James A. Donald" wrote:
Whether they were a threat or not is an objective fact. Jews were not a threat (unless perhaps one happens to live in Eretz Israel). Nazis were a threat. Anyone who says otherwise does not merely have different moral preferences. He is deluded or lying.
In particular jews were not a threat to germans and the aryan race, whereas nazis really were a threat to everyone.
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.
*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 still think murder and "evil", while touching each other, are not identical. I still think you're overly simplificating the problem, and that's exactly why it works so good in these extreme cases.