The Human Face of Evil



Centroids has recently been graced by two movingly eloquent posts by Nate Cull on the nature of evil:

* The human face of Nazi evil

* Glover's 'moral armour', and evil as a multiheaded beast able to permeate one's own skin

Nate is a New Zealander who called forth my dream of a happy revolution when he first joined us. He also inspired me to write down my own views under "Radical Evil: A Human Perspective."

Nate gets a bonus point for finding a loophole in Godwin's Law: he managed to use a (non-slanderous) reference to Nazism to make a crucial philosophical and moral point about the evil that lurks within all of us [rather than having it terminate the discussion, as predicted in Godwin's Law].

Addendum: check out our commentary on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s closely-related sermon, "Loving Your Enemies ." (9/18/2004).

Posted: Tue - August 3, 2004 at 05:30 AM        

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