-- James A. Donald:
Yes, Virginia, not only are there individual evil people, but there are entire evil nations that demand and expect that their members do evil things, a demand widely supported and forcefully encouraged by the people of that nation.
Tom Vogt:
evil, of course, is a question of perspective. most of those "evil" nations/people regard the US pretty much the same way. :-)
Stalin and Hitler were especially firm believers in the principle that evil is merely a question of perspective, and thus any nation that got in the way of mass murder, notably the US, was, by their theory, especially evil. Indeed Stalin made "objectivism" a thought crime, punishable by death. By "objectivism" he meant the belief that truth was a matter of fact, rather than authority. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG sGUzebEImqjIGE2qYEUZxQwyALaHoqCWaQOsjcXw 4m3XSJEty7kWxZnNp6n7nk2GGFIzjIkMczsbG1RQT