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Its Chocolate
Dec 21, 2019

splifyphus posted:

evil isn't a loving political or economic category, it's a moral category. asking which country/empire/ethnic group/corporation/capital formation/ideology/culture is most 'evil' is like asking which chemical reaction is most romantic, or which solar body is most likely to succeed after high school

the necessities and contingencies of power have always been inhuman and amoral. using moral categories to understand history distorts, obfuscates, and mystifies.

This is why it's wrong to say that Hitler was evil. He was just, uh, doing the contingencies, of power. Ever seen Game of Thrones?

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Its Chocolate
Dec 21, 2019
the most evil society was probably some Mesoamerican or ancient fertile crescent civilization that was sacrificing infants on ziggurats

Its Chocolate
Dec 21, 2019
a more interesting question than the OP is whether there is a more evil first-world country than America right now, and I would say no

Its Chocolate
Dec 21, 2019
as usual liberals don't care about killing babies

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