Quote Originally Posted by webby189 View Post
Sari, with your posit that hitler= evil

How would you define his subordinates who carried the horrific acts? Is it evil to not fight back against orders you know are evil?

If you face certain death by not preforming an evil (by all culture and socialogical norms at the time) act, are you then evil?

And if not, then where is the cutoff? What if your child will be killed if you don't commit these acts? What if you while be tortured? What if you will simply be denyed a promotion or raise?
Well actually that was my whole point..it's very subjective and there is a very thin line...and different people will have different opinions on it because there is no set accepted general definition of what is evil..mine could very well be different from yours and yours different from the next person's. Hitler was just an exaggerated example...You pose good questions....is it evil to save your child's life by commiting a heinous act? Again, different people will have different answers. Can succumbing to your instinctual, parental instinct to protect your children no matter what the cost be considered evil? When and were are excuses acceptable and not acceptable. In my post about Hitler i said while most TODAY would say he WAS evil..at that time He and his followers actually thought they were doing something noble..again just an example to show how abstract and subjective an idea evil is.