Posted on 09/14/2022 1:15:23 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It can be said that gaining wisdom is a process of gaining some dark insights into life.
One such insight is this: A lot of evil has been abetted by nice people.
By “nice,” I am referring to the way people comport themselves in the personal realm. We refer to people as being “nice” if they are friendly to strangers, more or less honest in their dealings with others, take care of their families, support friends, and are pleasant to be around.
We all want nice neighbors.
To put it another way, “nice” generally refers to the micro—the personal—realm. It does not generally refer to the macro realm; that is, to the views and values people hold about moral and social questions.
The human being is composed of two moral components: the micro and the macro. In a truly good human being (“good” is not the same as “nice”), one is good in both realms. It is therefore quite possible to be nice in the micro and hold awful values for society, and it is quite possible to have excellent macro values, and not be a particularly nice person.
Take communism, for example.
Communist regimes killed some 100 million people in the 20th century—none of them combatants in war. Add to that number more than a billion devastated lives: the friends and family of the murdered, the generations deprived of elementary human rights, and the countless number of innocent people imprisoned and tortured, and you have as pure an evil as is imaginable.
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Then both of us were not clear, which I doubt, because it looks like we said basically the same thing.
I always try to give somebody the benefit of the doubt.
But you are probably correct.
Some of the scariest, and creepiest leftists are “nice” people.
Ted Bundy used to chat up the ladies with his charm and good looks. I presume he was nice, but he was indeed evil.
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