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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Ilaine who wrote (41039)6/19/1999 11:37:00 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Depends in part on whether you evalutate the evilness of an action with hindsight or then-sight. To us now, it was certainly evil. But in many cases they actually believed they were saving souls; were in fact doing good works for those people, keeping them from the Devil. Not all cases, I agree, but some.

From our perspective they were as deluded as the slaveowners who truly believed they were doing the black savages from Africa and civilizing them. And certainly we should learn from the wrongs of the past. But we also have to be careful about judgments made solely from the perspective of centuries away.

Stalin and Lenin, on the other hand, barely even pretended to have good motives. They were out simply to consolidate power, and they knew it.
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