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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 484663" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Thanks for posting that interesting article, JJJ.</p><p>I think... evil is not at all what we imagine. The people who can stand up against what we later identify as "evil" at the time it is happening, and at personal cost to themselves and/or their families, are rare... moral heroes. Or probably just people who have understood that it is truly better to die than to lose your morality. It is very hard to see or to understand that - when I was young and unformed, I did not. And no-one can make someone else see it. </p><p>I really believe that often times people are caught up in evil situations, which are condoned by everyone around them, and see no way to resist. This is all of us - how many of us would have resisted the Nazis? I would like to be one of those heroes but fear I would not have been. Life sometimes imposes impossible choices on us. It is much more complicated than people being good or bad.</p><p>And it makes me very sad... because I really would like to be one of the Resistance fighters or harbouring Jews in my attic. But know there is part of me that would crumple, that would take the easy way, that would feel powerless to stand up for my values and beliefs. I and millions of others. And so the world turns.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 484663, member: 11227"] Thanks for posting that interesting article, JJJ. I think... evil is not at all what we imagine. The people who can stand up against what we later identify as "evil" at the time it is happening, and at personal cost to themselves and/or their families, are rare... moral heroes. Or probably just people who have understood that it is truly better to die than to lose your morality. It is very hard to see or to understand that - when I was young and unformed, I did not. And no-one can make someone else see it. I really believe that often times people are caught up in evil situations, which are condoned by everyone around them, and see no way to resist. This is all of us - how many of us would have resisted the Nazis? I would like to be one of those heroes but fear I would not have been. Life sometimes imposes impossible choices on us. It is much more complicated than people being good or bad. And it makes me very sad... because I really would like to be one of the Resistance fighters or harbouring Jews in my attic. But know there is part of me that would crumple, that would take the easy way, that would feel powerless to stand up for my values and beliefs. I and millions of others. And so the world turns. [/QUOTE]
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