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At the Roots of Evil – Why Is There Evil in the World, and Is Human Nature Fundamentally Good or Evil?
“Evil is ignorance,” Socrates once said.“No one is evil by nature; one is simply weaker than another.” — Eino Leino. The Nazis systematically confined Jews and many other groups of people behind barbed-wire fences in camps, where they imagined they could exterminate entire peoples and all those they deemed “subhuman” by gassing them in a…
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Popper, ”paradox of tolerance”, Hitler, Trump and the modern far-right
The Austrian-British philosopher Karl Popper wrote in his book ”Open society and its enemies” in 1945 about the ”paradox of tolerance” and warns of the danger of fascism and its bystanders. The paradox goes roughly like this: If tolerant people tolerate and accept intolerance, it follows that intolerant people like fascists and Nazis will take…