Maybe don't assist the Nazis and then genocide Poland or something, idk
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It makes me feel like if I don’t defend my point, then I’ll receive some sort of punishment due to an imbalance of power.
You won't.
But it also feels like I need to walk on eggshells, because if I defend myself by, say, pointing out a mistake a mod makes, I could receive some sort of punishment, as well.
I've gotten into cursing matches with people on here who still aren't banned or punished for it. Doubt you can say worse.
It’s a tangential point, so it has something to do with the topic, tangentially. I am talking about the idea that you can point to one good thing that changes a bad person into a good person, or even one bad thing that changes a good person into a bad person. The topic is Stalin apologists, so I brought up Hitler, instead, as a person in the same category.
But the Stalin apologists in the meme aren't arguing one good thing redeemed his evil, they're arguing that what he did wasn't evil.
The problem is that I agree with that sentiment, first, but if you’re asking how I would interpret it, I would read the rest of their comment to see what they meant specifically.
But each sentence is also read within the context of what was stated prior. And in our particular case, the sentences that follow are about how bad people are convinced they're good too.
If there’s no “less black” interpretation of both Hitler or Stalin, then it would be impossible to compare them with each other. They’re both just perfectly black. Then, there’s no scale. There’s no degrees. There’s no room for a worse monster to arise in the future.
There's no 'less black' interpretation of Hitler or Stalin insofar as there is no reasonable way to interpret their behavior as less-than-evil, not as in "There is no way anyone could ever be worse than either of them."
If I say someone getting raped is evil, full stop, that doesn't mean that I think that multiple people getting raped isn't worse. It means I don't believe there's a less-black interpretation of someone getting raped.
Well, my comment was about how there are degrees of good and evil, and how somebody apologizing for an overwhelmingly evil person by showing something less evil that they did doesn’t excuse their behavior, and your response started with: “Fuck, man,” which is a statement that you not only disagree, but that you think my point is egregious or exasperating. That is the vague implication.
Fuck, man, there’s a place between “Everything is good or evil” and “Nothing is good and evil”
That would point pretty clearly towards a worldview acknowledging degrees of good and evil.