Originally Posted by Cigaro  Sorry, lame article.
The whole "everything is not black or white, it's grey" has been done a million tims before. For example, the popular example that killing a man during peace time is murder but killing a thousand men during war time is heroic. This is by the way a very popular defense in court, so I don't blame the author for being confused.
The article is confusing 'good' for 'lawful' or 'accepted by morality as defined by the majority of the population'.
Example: I'm at home. Somebody burts into my appartement and threatens me or my family. I kill them forcefully in an attempt to defend myself. That's not evil in my book.
Now, I'm a hutu in rwanda, I walk drunk in a village, rape 5 year old girls in front of their mothers, then beat the civilian father in front of the mother for fun, then kill the mother and the kids by torturing them with a knife, laughing as I do it. This by the way, happens all the time. And erm, that's definitely evil. Anyone saying it's not, that it's just 'dumb', is 'dumb' himself, and really needs professional help.
Problem is the article is clearly politicaly motivated, repeatidly refering to terrorists (ie, Jihadis in current conflicts) and 'crusaders' (ie, us). Yes we get it, western civs have commited evil atrocities in the past and continue to do so. Yes we get it one's person freedom fighter is another person terrorist. That has nothing to do with the debate of good vs evil. The problem with the author is that if I give him the above rwanda example, he will reply 'But the americans killed tons of people during ww2/iraq/vietnam/afghanistan'. Well no buddy, some did, not all, and NO ONE ever said the atrocities commited were good. The atrocities were evil. An atrocity, regardless of your skin color, or political party, is still an atrocity, and still evil. The 9/11 bombings will never be good. The killing and rape of vietnamese by American soliders will never be good either.
Good exists. Evil exists. If you don't belive evil exists, you should get out more, read some news. When people comit violent crimes against the weak while laughing, then laugh at the families of the victims while in court, they aren't just dumb, they are evil. |