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THE EVIL OF BANALITY
by Roy Weston

Now it is Ron Rosenbaum who exercising intellectual laziness by assuming that you can divide the complexities of the human mind between good and evil. The experience of Adolf Eichmann is an example of how difficult that is.

Before Eichmann joined the SS, he was beaten by Nazi thugs because he looked Jewish. Now you would think after that experience that Eichmann would have some new-found compassion for the plight of Jews, but just the opposite happened. Eichmann reasoned that if Jews did not exist, he would have not been mistaken for one and, therefore, would not have been beaten. Don't get me wrong. Eichmann deserved to be executed because he had wilfully and knowingly participated in a criminal act, but can his motive be said to be evil or only the product of a warped and twisted train of thought? And who is in a position to judge?

Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord, so let's leave it to God to decide what is good and what is evil. All we mere mortals can do is decide, based on the Laws of Man, what is a criminal act and what is not. And unless Ron Rosenbaum is possessed with God-like powers, he has no choice but to do the same.

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