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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Hitler and Moral Relativism
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Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 04:44:34 EST
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I have 2 ways of explaining Hitlers. The first is that, like everything
else, people can make mistakes in perceiving what is good. This is
the ``most people do not think that they are doing immoral acts''
propostition -- they are just making mistakes. The other way, which I
think is more applicable to Hitler, is that *some* people, while
perceiving what is good, choose to do evil anyway.

It does not help that a lot of things are not good or evil, but stictly
neutral, but have been considered one or the other by people in the
past.

I think that what I am talking about is an evolution only in the very
loosest sense. If you have more time to think about what is wrong, and
a greater variety of events to consider for corraborative evidence it is
not surprising that more wrongs are uncovered. It does not follow that
someone who discovers these wrong is going to have an easy time getting
his neighbours to perceive them, though, or even that his children are
going to perceive them.

A few weeks ago a psychiatrist on staff at the St. Michael's (Roman
Catholic) hospital commented that he was upset that no abortions were
being performed there. His position was that if he could get the
director of the hospital and others opposed to the practice in for
psychotherapy 3 days a week that in 3 years he could ``cure'' them
of their ``squeamishness''. 

The question I have is, is ``inconvenience'' all that matters? Is
that all that keeps you from getting your ``squeamishness'' cured?

Laura Creighton
utzoo!laura