About 5yr. log retention
James A. Donald
jamesd at echeque.com
Wed Dec 27 11:29:21 PST 2000
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"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.
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James A. Donald
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