[Stirner]

"It struck me that there was something just missing or even dead about the person -- such people are not fully human and it is wrong for anyone to try to humanize them."

Putting on my own amateur psychologist's hat, I can understand the impulse, when confronted by evil, to deny that the perpetrator is fully human because that would make him, in some sense, like us. However, it is profoundly dangerous to label people as non-people. That's exactly what Hitler and Stalin did. A person can be incredibly destructively evil and at the same time a fully human being who shows us how low a human being can go. To fear that I too could wind up in such a hell is not the same as sympathy for such devils.

[alkaloid2]

Putting on my own amateur psychologist's hat, I can understand the impulse, when confronted by evil, to deny that the perpetrator is fully human because that would make him, in some sense, like us.

However, it is profoundly dangerous to label people as non-people. That's exactly what Hitler and Stalin did. A person can be incredibly destructively evil and at the same time a fully human being who shows us how low a human being can go. To fear that I too could wind up in such a hell is not the same as sympathy for such devils.

And what we've done, lest we forget.

Actually, done AGAIN, AFTER seeing what happened when we did it the first time (slaves), then what happened when Stalin and Hitler did it.

Will we ever learn? How can you all take the moral high ground when three blocks from your house a doctor is taking the life of a baby?

You people make me sick - passing judgement on Germans when in your own backyard the SAME THING IS HAPPENING. At least the termination camps were where the Germans couldn't see them - we drive by abortion clinics every day.

tSG