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0 pointsInclinedPlane13y ago0 comments

How old is the maxim "the road to hell is paved with good intentions"? And yet how often do we ignore it?

Much of the worst evil in history has been committed in service to a hypothetical greater good, or in retribution against very real wrongs. Germany had serious grievances in their treatment after WWI, for example. Communism, including Stalinism and Maoism, was a response against an extremely unjust social and economic order. Just because you've been wronged and victimized doesn't give you free reign to commit wrongs yourself.

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eruditely13y ago· 1 in thread

Who are you talking to? Nobody justified anybodies work, not this terrorist, not the unabomber and not any other organized retribution in history.

No commentary was made except that the unabombers manifesto was enlightening. That is all.

InclinedPlaneOP13y ago

I'm not attacking you, relax, reread what I wrote, there's no attack there.

I'm saying that most of the time people who do bad things based on ideological grounds are "right" about certain things in some way. It's the norm more than the exception. Real bad guys often have significant and real grievances, but it's how people respond to grievances and wrongs against them that makes them bad or good.

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