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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 676832" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Hannah Arendt is who coined the term "banality of evil" in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem. These are quotes from a wikipedia article.</p><p></p><p>Arendt insists that moral choice remains even under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism" target="_blank">totalitarianism</a>, and that this choice has political consequences even when the chooser is politically powerless:</p><p></p><p>"Under conditions of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_terrorism" target="_blank">terror</a> most people will comply but <em>some people will not</em>, just as the lesson of the countries to which the Final Solution was proposed is that "it could happen" in most places but <em>it did not happen everywhere</em>....</p><p></p><p>Arendt mentions, as a case in point, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_the_Danish_Jews" target="_blank">Denmark</a>:</p><p></p><p>One is tempted to recommend the story as required reading in political science for all students who wish to learn something about the enormous power potential inherent in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_resistance" target="_blank">non-violent action</a> and in resistance to an opponent possessing vastly superior means of violence.</p><p></p><p>It was not just that the people of Denmark refused to assist in implementing the Final Solution, as the peoples of so many other conquered nations had been persuaded to do (or had been eager to do) — but also, that when the Reich cracked down and decided to do the job itself it found that its own personnel in Denmark had been infected by this and <u>were unable to overcome their human aversion with the appropriate ruthlessness</u>, as their peers in more cooperative areas had."</p><p></p><p>I have underlined this remarkable thing. That not only did Denmark as a collectivity oppose the mandate of the Nazis to evil, that their people refused...rendered the Nazi's who had come to Denmark to impose the ruthless Nazi regime...unable to overcome <em>their own basic humanity</em>, which is an aversion to ruthlessness.</p><p></p><p>Was Nietsche Correct, that loves comes first? Did Denmark prove it? A naturalistic experiment?</p><p></p><p>The Banality of Evil I think comes from the sense that Eichmann was exceedingly normal. In all respects, unremarkable. Examined by 6 psychologists or psychiatrists in Israel he was seen to be average and without psychopathology by all. He justified everything he did as going along with the norms of the group he was in.</p><p></p><p>As did our sisters.</p><p></p><p>Are we Denmark? Is that our commonality?</p><p></p><p>COPA</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 676832, member: 18958"] Hannah Arendt is who coined the term "banality of evil" in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem. These are quotes from a wikipedia article. Arendt insists that moral choice remains even under [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism']totalitarianism[/URL], and that this choice has political consequences even when the chooser is politically powerless: "Under conditions of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_terrorism']terror[/URL] most people will comply but [I]some people will not[/I], just as the lesson of the countries to which the Final Solution was proposed is that "it could happen" in most places but [I]it did not happen everywhere[/I].... Arendt mentions, as a case in point, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_the_Danish_Jews']Denmark[/URL]: One is tempted to recommend the story as required reading in political science for all students who wish to learn something about the enormous power potential inherent in [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_resistance']non-violent action[/URL] and in resistance to an opponent possessing vastly superior means of violence. It was not just that the people of Denmark refused to assist in implementing the Final Solution, as the peoples of so many other conquered nations had been persuaded to do (or had been eager to do) — but also, that when the Reich cracked down and decided to do the job itself it found that its own personnel in Denmark had been infected by this and [U]were unable to overcome their human aversion with the appropriate ruthlessness[/U], as their peers in more cooperative areas had." I have underlined this remarkable thing. That not only did Denmark as a collectivity oppose the mandate of the Nazis to evil, that their people refused...rendered the Nazi's who had come to Denmark to impose the ruthless Nazi regime...unable to overcome [I]their own basic humanity[/I], which is an aversion to ruthlessness. Was Nietsche Correct, that loves comes first? Did Denmark prove it? A naturalistic experiment? The Banality of Evil I think comes from the sense that Eichmann was exceedingly normal. In all respects, unremarkable. Examined by 6 psychologists or psychiatrists in Israel he was seen to be average and without psychopathology by all. He justified everything he did as going along with the norms of the group he was in. As did our sisters. Are we Denmark? Is that our commonality? COPA [/QUOTE]
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