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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Perhaps the classifying and dithering over different levels/kinds of evil and evil doers allows/facilitates these events.
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I agree with Itse, it's the single minded classification that facilitates evil actions. Trying to gain a deeper understanding won't ever lead to worse outcome.
And I think you are making it far too personal, you can disagree with him without back-handed psychoanalysis.
I look at it this way, if you took 100 people that were doing evil things out of ISIS, and replaced them with 100 random people from this forum... replaced them at birth, so they would live the exact life that the ISIS member they replaced lived... what would be the outcome? Would those 100 forum members act any differently? Individuals might act differently due to different genes, but if you average out the individual effect from genes, there won't be any difference will there?
People are significantly a product of the environment they're raised in, and the worse the circumstances the worse it'll be for the people.
If someone is raised in a society where racism is the norm, I don't blame them for it.
If someone's raised from infancy to hate a group of people to the point that killing them is reasonable, raised in an environment devoid of education or any opportunity to learn morals, raised steeped in violence and death, I can't blame them when they act that way. I don't deny they do evil things, but I want to ask why they are doing evil things.