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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (12561)	4/28/2001 3:28:52 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) of 82486

I think one can at least understand people who do "bad" things in a society that embraces "bad" things. In Germany a good German did inhuman things. When your whole society is turning in a certain way it takes remarkable individualists to resist. People who identify with groups and people who have a high need to belong to groups are simply not going to have the tools to stand apart from the group. People seem to me to be born either individual centered or group centered. And people also seem to be born with high capacities for empathy or low capacities for empathy. Empathy even in low capacity individuals can be bolstered, as can a feeling of individualism. In the US we stress the individual far more than they do in most other countries, for example. Merely contrast education in Japan and the US to see the "group" model (Japan) versus the highly individualist US model. I cannot respect what the Nazis did, anymore than I can respect what the communists did, or what we did to the blacks in this country, but I can understand the context of a civilization with very different values from my own, and I have empathy for people who are completely trapped by context.

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