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To: alkaloid2
Excellent Post!

Showing Hitler (or any other mass murderer) as a monster only de-humanizes him.

It convinces the viewer that Hitler was some "thing" that existed in a far away land a long time ago.

It densensitzes the viewer to the banality of evil -- the fact that real, live human beings can and do commit monstously evil acts.

I'm quite sure that Justice Blackman led a nice, quiet homelife with his wife, and was -- in many ways -- quite an avuncular human being.

And yet, he penned and signed a Supreme Court decision that has meant the death of millions of human lives.

Avuncular people can and do monstrous things.

28 posted on 08/24/2004 8:42:30 AM PDT by chs68
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To: chs68

Amen - I'm sure the families and neighbors of abortionists think that they are swell guys, whether they know what the "doctor" is doing to make himself rich or not.

tSG


29 posted on 08/24/2004 8:44:50 AM PDT by alkaloid2 (Hey! Check out http://www.thesupergenius.com!)
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