To Those Who Think They Have All The Answers
September 15th 2007 18:57
Theres a certain something that all the worst people in history have in common. The inability to feel remorse or accountability for the most evil of actions.
It isn't so simple as 'he has no conscience'. Everyone has a conscience, everyone has a basic grasp of the differences between right and wrong, its been hardwired into our heads after thousands of years of natural evolution.
The double standards and narrowmindedness of these poeple may often be the result of a very narrow upbringing, they may claim to understand the difference between right and wrong though they twist their own understanding of it far enough that they are immunte to ever doing or even thinking wrong. In its simplest you could say they have no conscience because the one they listen to never makes them feel guilty, only more sure of themselves.
Such people, its what dicators are made of, people like Hitler or Stalin, they embodied the same core ideas, that being right is all they could be and that the enemy was everyone but themselves.
Thats how you can kill millions of people with no regret or feeling of remorse, by displacing all feelings of guilt and accountablity to a fairy tale of excuses. Thats what Hitler used to justify doing what he did. People like this don't need proof or reasoning much less logic, all they needs is an entity to which they can load all her feelings of guilt and accountability to. Create a scapegoat and pursue it, gain everything desired in the process, be it money or power or anything else.
It isn't so simple as 'he has no conscience'. Everyone has a conscience, everyone has a basic grasp of the differences between right and wrong, its been hardwired into our heads after thousands of years of natural evolution.
The double standards and narrowmindedness of these poeple may often be the result of a very narrow upbringing, they may claim to understand the difference between right and wrong though they twist their own understanding of it far enough that they are immunte to ever doing or even thinking wrong. In its simplest you could say they have no conscience because the one they listen to never makes them feel guilty, only more sure of themselves.
Such people, its what dicators are made of, people like Hitler or Stalin, they embodied the same core ideas, that being right is all they could be and that the enemy was everyone but themselves.
Thats how you can kill millions of people with no regret or feeling of remorse, by displacing all feelings of guilt and accountablity to a fairy tale of excuses. Thats what Hitler used to justify doing what he did. People like this don't need proof or reasoning much less logic, all they needs is an entity to which they can load all her feelings of guilt and accountability to. Create a scapegoat and pursue it, gain everything desired in the process, be it money or power or anything else.
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A good observation of history... only supported by the old saying;
Evil arises, when good men do nothing...
We must guard against the idle mind of mindless gaming too perhaps?
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