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To: Ilaine who wrote (74886)	2/21/2000 11:43:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I know that the Nazis thought they were doing the right thing when they killed the Jews and the Gypsies and the homosexuals and the insane and the mentally deficient, just like we think we are doing good when we go to the doctor to have him cut out cancer. I wonder if they really thought they were doing the right thing or if they simply allowed themselves to be convinced by the men with the loud voices. Far too few people really think; all too many repeat what they are told and call it thinking.

To: Ilaine who wrote (74886)	2/22/2000 12:04:00 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

yes- it isn't good enough necessarily. It might be good enough, but it might not. Whatever good enough means, and depending on the way you define "good".

To: Ilaine who wrote (74886)	2/22/2000 1:46:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Don't quite agree, Blue. The Nazis were not facing a morally ambiguous situation, which they had to act to resolve, and in which they were forced to choose between one ethical principle and another. In the first place, there was no objective need whatsoever to kill Jews, Gypsies, mental defectives, et al. And there was no "moral ambiguity" about the situation; that is to say, there was no clash/tension between different traditional values; no need to decide which took priority. The only choice they made was to dump the OLD morality IN TOTO and to apply the NEW. To say that anybody's choices are as good as anybody else's IS the "bad kind" of relativism. Another term for it is nihilism.