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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: frankw1900 who wrote (46263)5/22/2004 12:45:41 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 793990
 
The adversaries in Iraq are not morally powerful. They are aspiring proto-feudal tyrants, and for that, deserve killing. They have an abysmally evil record. There is no room for them in the modern world.

With all due respect, this does not appear to be true about the prisoners in Abu Ghraib.

It is exactly the generalization from hostility against the enemy to hostility against people who resemble the enemy that is our own descent into evil.

The dehumanization of the enemy, the lumping of all people of the same nationality or race into the category of enemy is evil. It's predictable, it's an all too human failing, but it is evil.
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