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Originally Posted by nik-
I think if you exhort the execution of people for having different religious beliefs then you're evil. So maybe the Romans qualify? I don't really know if I want to go back through history and checking off people I think were evil. I just think ISIS is. I don't feel I'm saying anything radical here.
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I'm not trying to start an argument, I'm just curious about the label of 'evil'.
I think it has a dehumanizing quality, as in "these guys are evil, let's drop bombs on them".
I think it's a little bit more complicated than bombing them to the stone age and salting the earth to prevent or stifle jihadism.
I don't know if these guys are any more 'evil', than some other bygone trapping of religious fanaticism. I don't think bombs and bullets is going to solve it though.