Poll: who are worse?
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People seem to be merely talking about accomplishments here, but the real question should surely be about their ideologies and culture. I voted neither, because as people, none of them were/are really that bad.
If in their position, I expect many of us here (including myself) would behave the same way. Actions we see as evil, heartless cruelties, are probably seen as necessities from their point if view. No mentally secure person believes themselves to be evil and cruel, we all simply have or find justification in our actions.
So as people, no, none of them are any worse than the rest of us, it's all just a matter of perspective.
If in their position, I expect many of us here (including myself) would behave the same way. Actions we see as evil, heartless cruelties, are probably seen as necessities from their point if view. No mentally secure person believes themselves to be evil and cruel, we all simply have or find justification in our actions.
So as people, no, none of them are any worse than the rest of us, it's all just a matter of perspective.
I hear this kind of thing all the time, and it's absurd.ProfessorLayton said:
Nothing is really good or evil. However, you don't see me going around killing people, because I dislike the concept of prison, or guilt. people can still regret their actions, and feel bad about things, not because the action is 'evil', but because we've been conditioned during our upbringing to feel bad when we do something like that to someone. This is helped by our natural sense of empathy. I do not want to put myself in the shoes of a murder victim, so I'm repelled by the thought of murder.
It's the same way people give to charity. They believe that it's the morally right thing to do. The fact of the matter is, once again this is the result of mental conditioning of our beliefs of right and wrong. Thanks to this, performing selfless acts, which are deemed as 'very good', results in the person feeling better than if they'd spent the money on themselves.
Everything we do, we do because of a false sense of duty (fed into us by our society throughout our lives), the avoidance or negative feelings (physical or emotional), or the pursuit of positive feelings (physical/emotional). These three reasons can work completely separately, or combine. Mix that with our evolved intelligence, allowing us to plan ahead, or anticipate consequences, and you have the basic structure behind everything we do, or have done in the past (including Nazi's and Taliban).
Upon reading the thread title the blatant grammar error had my English juice running out of my right ear.
Upon reading the subject, my brain melted out of my left ear. This thread is/will be FLAME TASTIC!
My opinion: Yes, both are bad, but it's hard to compare them both. So they're a bad group, let's leave it at that.
Upon reading the subject, my brain melted out of my left ear. This thread is/will be FLAME TASTIC!
My opinion: Yes, both are bad, but it's hard to compare them both. So they're a bad group, let's leave it at that.
I was going to respond to this post, but I see it's a foreigner with no idea of our politics, so it's just a troll and I'm ignoring it.Cmwissy said:
As for the thread, I'm unsure. As one stated before, the Taliban can never be "squished" because they constantly spread like roaches and use the UN's rules to cover themselves. The Nazi's killed millions, but were finally able to be put down. In the end, I would possibly have to say the Nazi's, but that doesn't make the Taliban any less "worse" than the Nazi's. Also, I agree with the idea of this thread is needing a facepalm, at the very least. Especially for the original post. The grammar... my eyes...
AWAR said:
Ahhh moral relativism. And in a thread about the Nazis and the Taliban to boot!
So completely asinine, yet somehow endearingly quaint.
Bravo! *clap* *clap*
So completely asinine, yet somehow endearingly quaint.
Bravo! *clap* *clap*