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Originally Posted by AkAngel
Perhaps they feel the similar to how I feel when I listen to people talk about how the United States is the greatest country in the world. I am Navajo, my wife is Spokane; 'the greatest country in the world' butchered my people committing genocide on hundreds of my cousin tribes - the Narragansett, the Powhatan, the Natchez etc. They didn't just kill them though, soldiers cut off the breasts of Navajo women, my ancestors, and played stickball with them. My wife's great-great grandfather was killed, skinned and stuffed and put on display in an officers tent while he talked treaty with her people.
Is the United States evil? Perhaps it was just the president? Which one though...there were so many under which atrocities like this occurred. Oh but it can't be just the president, cause 'we the people' elect him. It is estimated that 60% of the native american population were murdered by the United States government. Now I don't know how many that adds up to but I wonder if the number approaches the number of Jews that Germans killed under Hitler.
I don't believe a person or a society can be evil, but it strikes me that as people look for a representative of evil that they always seem to look as far away as possible ignoring the atrocities at their feet.
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I don't know why you went to the trouble to quote me, since I would be the 1st to admit, there were horrific atrocities committed against the native Indian people. We have spoke before that your religion doesn't believe people can be evil and that's your belief. There was also atrocities against African American people and similar atrocities against humans as we speak. Evil rears it's ugly head when it comes to race, religion, and politics - that's why I'm against war and prejudice. I only mentioned Hitler because it was mentioned repeatedly in this thread and I don't wants member of this religion to be insulted. I don't think the topic of this OP, was to have a competition of who's atrocity is greater. So I think it could be agreed that religion, race and politics can bring out the evil in people.
I was more interested in the single person and why it happens. I agree it's nature and/or nurture. There are serial killers who've had good upbringings but still kill. There are child predators and psychopathic killers that will never be rehabilitated or fixed.