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<blockquote data-quote="Ackem" data-source="post: 1284066" data-attributes="member: 15003">I'm reminded of a short parable in a book I read:It was about a dutiful soldier. He loved his family. He had many friends. He was never cruel to animals. He was not greedy, selfish, or proud. But if he saw one flaw in himself, it was that he was not as emotionless in fullfilling his duties as an SS officer as he should be, his stomach sometimes fluttered when dealing with the Judenrats.If you rule out twisted morality from &quot;Evil&quot; then you're missing out of a big part of what evil is. Most widespread evil on this world was conducted by people who thought they were doing the right thing; they just have to &quot;deal&quot; with those traitors to the revolution, they need to restore the &quot;right&quot; morals to country, they want their nation to reclaim it's rightful place and honor, they need to put down the heretics who are endangering the people's souls, they want to prevent those rebels from otherthrowing the rightful king, etc, etc, etc. Beyond just having compunctions, this brand of evil might see killing children as &quot;evil&quot; but believe their own actions are right and just.So, of course, there's evil that will spare children. There's also evil that will step infront of a bullet to save a child.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ackem, post: 1284066, member: 15003"] I'm reminded of a short parable in a book I read: It was about a dutiful soldier. He loved his family. He had many friends. He was never cruel to animals. He was not greedy, selfish, or proud. But if he saw one flaw in himself, it was that he was not as emotionless in fullfilling his duties as an SS officer as he should be, his stomach sometimes fluttered when dealing with the Judenrats. If you rule out twisted morality from "Evil" then you're missing out of a big part of what evil is. Most widespread evil on this world was conducted by people who thought they were doing the right thing; they just have to "deal" with those traitors to the revolution, they need to restore the "right" morals to country, they want their nation to reclaim it's rightful place and honor, they need to put down the heretics who are endangering the people's souls, they want to prevent those rebels from otherthrowing the rightful king, etc, etc, etc. Beyond just having compunctions, this brand of evil might see killing children as "evil" but believe their own actions are right and just. So, of course, there's evil that will spare children. There's also evil that will step infront of a bullet to save a child. [/QUOTE]

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