So, considering this is Lemmy I’ll clarify. I’m not talking about your neighbor who voted for Trump or your uncle who’s always been a dick. I’m talking about coming in contact with a deep down evil scary human. I’ve only met one that I can think of. When I was 12 or 13 I spent a ton of time at my best friends house. He lived on a big beautiful rural property with his dad, a few brothers and always one or two random dudes. His dad was a good electrician and a biker. So, he always had friends/associates hanging around. So one day I was staying over for a long weekend and we met a new guy his dad was housing for a week or two. Dude was a real full fledged nazi. Had a swastika under his eye and tats all over most of his body. He was from California I guess. He was “working” with my buddies dad for awhile. Anyway, the main interaction I had with him was when he pulled my friend and I in for a sermon. We were going to go hunt squirrels and do rural kid shit. He stopped us outside and had us sit on the porch. Spent about 20 minutes explaining all the things youd imagine a nazi explains. Moslty about catholics, jews and blacks. My friends dad came out after awhile and told him we didn’t need to hear that shit. He sent us away, but, I never forgot the look this dude had in his eyes. It was like the look of complete bordem mixed with extreme anger all the time.
I’m with Hannah Ardent on this, true evil is banal and its ubiqutious.
I’ll buy some bullshit coffee and not donate that to MSF, I’d classify that as evil writ large, I have seen evil and its in the mirror each morning… Spend money.on Spotify or save a life ?
An example, its estimated 600,000 children have died since US Aid was cut and an estimated 22 million deaths by 2030, how many before it’s a holocaust? Think about the weight the deaths of 600,000 children (so far) should carry, vs the weight of what it actually carries. Then you need to start to question what evil actually is.
Aside from proeslitization, is the averge person that different to your swastika tattoo’d interaction ?
For example
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_Hands_with_the_Devil_(book)?wprov=sfla1
Im an atheist, the quote on the inside the cover of Romeo’s book … Paraphrasibg “I know god exisits, because i have looked into the eyes of the devil, sat across from him and shaken his hand”