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Originally Posted by Nicketas  Really? So the Holocaust was really just a matter of perception then?
Clearly, that was not an act of "evil" as the DICTIONARY describes it.
See, its neat when you can reframe anything. |
Well actually, yes it is just a matter of human perception that the holocaust was evil. In the world itself, millions of people died to the hands of other people. That's the reality of it. Because humans value the sanctity of life it's a horror that those acts were commited. We call it evil, and rightly so, but the actual reality of the situation doesn't contain evil, it's just something that happened.
I'm not diminishing the tragedy it was, or the fact that what was commited is, from our viewpoint, very very very evil, but when you can separate and own both the actual reality of the situation and all the meaning behind it, you gain power over the situation. When you confuse your perception of reality with reality itself you end up acting on your perception, on your illusion. You waste power and energy working on something that's not real, where it could be better spent dealing with the underlying situation.
As far as the holocaust, it was far more effective to fight the germans doing the killings than it was to fight evil. Eventually we triumphed and put a stop to it, but if we were fighting the idea of evil, we might still be fighting it now. How's it going for America?
