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Re: So, we need a topic...Lets try this?
Posted By: Gothmog (ool-43562621.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: 5/24/2003 at 5:54 p.m.
In Response To: Re: So, we need a topic...Lets try this? (Martel)
: Okay, I don't have time for as long a response as I'd
: like, but...
: To call someone else 'evil' is essentially an oblique way
: of saying 'I am morally superior to you and am
: therefore entitled to do anything I like to you, even
: if in so doing I may exceed whatever actions caused
: you to be labelled as evil in the first place, because
: it's okay when I do it, because I'm good, you're evil
: and you deserve it.' Which is why it's so stupid to
: start labelling people as evil. Look at 'Columbo' as
: an example. The bad guys might be greedy, or ruthless,
: or desperate, or even just easily manipulated, but
: never evil, because the moment you apply that
: adjective to someone, they cease to be a person and
: become merely a cardboard cut-out. And if it's so hard
: to say that a person is evil, can you possibly use
: that adjective of an entire nation?
on a similar note, is is possable, that the leveler, and all "evil" affiliates, are not really evil, but are actually good, because his appearance keeps the human race unified against him, and therefore prevents them from waring against each other, so that people do not just go to war with each other, because people in general do not seem to coexist peacefully.
Gothmog
Messages In This Thread
- hey
Gothmog (ool-43562621.dyn.optonline.net) -- 5/22/2003 at 9:06 p.m.
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Zandervix (cache-rc01.proxy.aol.com) -- 5/22/2003 at 9:49 p.m.
- Re: hey
sumone (dial-209-148-113-171.sonic.net) -- 5/24/2003 at 12:39 a.m.
- Re: hey
Superfoborg (term1-6.vta.west.net) -- 5/23/2003 at 1:55 a.m.
- Re: hey
Gothmog (ool-43562621.dyn.optonline.net) -- 5/23/2003 at 4:14 p.m.
- Re: hey
Doom (207.239.12.200) -- 5/27/2003 at 11:38 a.m.
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