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That Goering was a wonderful husband and father does not exclude him from being evil.  Is your idea that before one can be classified as Evil,that the person must be evil in every aspect of his life?  If this were the case even the Germans would not have supported him.  These despots must show some semblance of normality in order to seduce others into their way of thinking.  Take Manson as an example.  Hitler's main priority was not wealth, although he did organize for the great european artworks to be stored until his final glory.  That America provided qudos and refuge for these refuse german scientists is an indightment on their own morality, as is the refuge provided by the Red Cross and the Vatican for these monsters who lived out their lives in comfort in South America.

That the german medicos carried out experiments in itself perhaps understandable, but they carried them out without any anaesthesia is not only evil, but verging on necromancy.  Their victims were live human guinea pigs.

Hitler was driven by an ego maniac belief in eugenics and a total misrepresentation of what HPB said on races.  He believed the Aryans to be Germans, when in fact she herself stated that the Aryans were composed of Hindu, Ario-semites, Iranians, Celts, Teutons, and for which she has since been labelled a racist.

Serial Killers do not kill for money they kill for power and revenge, which is what Hitler did, but on a far grander scale.

Cass 

 

RKS:I was pointing out the flaw in assuming that someone who does evil is necessarily 'evil to the core', so to speak, a point which you seem to be well on top of.

 

One should never allow, say, Hitler's genial nature outside of politics to mitigate his crimes.  Indeed, a person that does act much the same in all domains is probably insane.

 

In the USA, communism and everything associated with it was deemed to be evil.  That means that they rejected even the good ideas that the communists had and reject any initiative that can be linked to communism eg universal healthcare.  This is simply a case of cutting off your nose to spite your face and is the exact opposite to the behaviour we would anticipate from an enlightened being.

 

One's evil acts and general behaviour are separate, that is the point.  We should not judge their evil acts in the light of their otherwise genial character and likewise, we should not judge their actions outside of the evil in light of the acts committed ~ they are separate.

 

In doing this we would not be as surprised to find the smiley faced helpful neighbour to be responsible for serial murder because we don't assume that evil in one domain necessarily means evil in all domains.  But many (most?) people fall into this trap and when the majority are deluded in this way then the door is open for the next Hitler to rise to power.

 

Robert