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"Dad, don't tell them anything about me anymore, even if I'm dying"
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 676854" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Nobody who is a moral and thinking person could dispute this.</p><p></p><p>The argument of the book as I understand it is that evil can present itself in an innocuous, nondescript way--like some conformist official who is going along with the status quo, following orders or rules. Some nobody. An evil person can be somebody weak...or average...who instead of speaking up, and saying NO...can do unspeakable evil.</p><p></p><p>To say somebody banal...did evil, did bad...does not minimize evil. In fact it makes it even scarier, more ominous. Because this means that the evil doer can be in our family, co-workers, neighbors, ourselves. It means we have personal responsibility always to be vigilant. </p><p></p><p>I did an evil thing once. I went along with it. I will post about it later. I was in high school. I do not think permanent harm came to the person, thank goodness. But I remembered my whole life and the memory made me stronger so that I would never, again do anything like it.</p><p></p><p>COPA</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 676854, member: 18958"] Nobody who is a moral and thinking person could dispute this. The argument of the book as I understand it is that evil can present itself in an innocuous, nondescript way--like some conformist official who is going along with the status quo, following orders or rules. Some nobody. An evil person can be somebody weak...or average...who instead of speaking up, and saying NO...can do unspeakable evil. To say somebody banal...did evil, did bad...does not minimize evil. In fact it makes it even scarier, more ominous. Because this means that the evil doer can be in our family, co-workers, neighbors, ourselves. It means we have personal responsibility always to be vigilant. I did an evil thing once. I went along with it. I will post about it later. I was in high school. I do not think permanent harm came to the person, thank goodness. But I remembered my whole life and the memory made me stronger so that I would never, again do anything like it. COPA [/QUOTE]
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