I'm sure that's not what you're saying, but I'm really having trouble understanding what you mean.
This small story isn't about people who fought in World War II, who had personal scarifying experiences with Japanese soldiers. It's expressly about people who didn't. And my point, as I said to karenmiller, isn't that we should judge. It's that we can't. And that that goes for all sides.
My moral comparativism does not extend to saying we cannot judge the Holocaust to be evil. It is perhaps as unambiguous an act of evil as I can think of. But putting it into the box marked EVIL and nailing it shut doesn't help us understand how and why it happened, or how to keep it from happening again.
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Date: 2006-09-18 01:38 pm (UTC)I'm sure that's not what you're saying, but I'm really having trouble understanding what you mean.
This small story isn't about people who fought in World War II, who had personal scarifying experiences with Japanese soldiers. It's expressly about people who didn't. And my point, as I said to
My moral comparativism does not extend to saying we cannot judge the Holocaust to be evil. It is perhaps as unambiguous an act of evil as I can think of. But putting it into the box marked EVIL and nailing it shut doesn't help us understand how and why it happened, or how to keep it from happening again.