On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 03:45:17PM -0600, Levi Pearson wrote: > Justin Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you think historically in addition to currently, where would Hitler > > or Stalin be? How far in would they scale the rest of the graph. Bush > > may be extreme, and has enacted an ignominious government, but he's not > > as bad as either of them. I'm no Bush patriot (do those sort of people > > even exist anymore?) but not only is it relative, it's also arbitrary. > > Being in a certain position of the graph doesn't make you a bad > person, and a bad person's position on the graph doesn't necessarily > make that position evil. It's not a moral graph, just a political > one.
So it's not evil to advocate evil policies (e.g., say, killing all the Jews or sending all the middle class to Siberian slave labor camps)? Or perhaps it's not evil to actually do such things so long as you can do it as a government? No, policy has a moral dimension. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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