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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
Khmer Rouge 'were not bad people'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16028435 Maybe they were just policemen.
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panlives Inner circle 2087 Posts |
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Patrick Differ Inner circle 1540 Posts |
I guess now-a-days, slightly less than 4,000,000 dead doesn't make them "bad people". (While any amount more most definitely would...) F man, talk about "ego", but then, megalomania does demand large doses of denial.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Can anyone name fore than 2 or 3 Khmer Rouge? My knowledge stops at 1, I think. And he was a bad person.
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The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
Octopus Sun Special user Wiggle Wiggle 586 Posts |
Killing Fields...nuff said
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panlives Inner circle 2087 Posts |
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On 2011-12-05 10:30, Duaut wrote: Agreed. "They create a desolation and call it a peace." – Calgacus Social Engineers who come to us in the obvious garments of Fascists, Dictators, etc, the self-deified arbiters of all that is true and righteous and the self-appointed judges of all that is not, never see themselves as “evil.” They see themselves as solutions to a problem. As Isaiah Berlin wrote, “To make mankind just and happy and creative and harmonious forever – what could be too high a price to pay for that?” And with such wishes burning hotly in the minds of the truly sociopathic in our midst do we start to pave that metaphorical road to the Underworld.
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
I was interested until I read the link and saw that he was just trying to blame others for his crimes.
What a tool.
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spatlind Special user still moving 863 Posts |
I've been to that Tuol Sleng prison. Haunting place, hard to imagine what went on there
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts |
4 mil dead--I'd call that a little 'ornery,' wouldn't you?
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
Their argument is that "they" didn't do it, "rogue elements" and the "Vietnamese" killed all those people.
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
See, now that's what made it uninteresting. I thought maybe the article was going to go into some Milgram/Zimbardo territory. Like, "good people can do bad things too" and "the situation is more powerful than the individual." But, instead, it was just an attempt to blame other people for their own atrocities. Ruined all my fun.
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
What? Did you actually expect something original from them?
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
Well, I hoped
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