By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-01 12:07:36 | Updated at 2024-10-07 22:29:16
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People Hate Those Who Fight Evil More Than Those Who Are Evil
Townhall ^ | October 1, 2024 | Dennis Prager
Posted on 10/01/2024 4:57:53 AM PDT by Stepan12
I realized something very important about the human condition when I was in high school.
I realized that people tend to hate those who fight evil far more than they hate those engaged in doing evil.
What made me come to this conclusion was the way in which many people reacted to communism and to anti-communism.
To my amazement, a great many people -- specifically, all leftists and many, though not all, liberals -- hated anti-communists far more than they hated communism.
Because of my early preoccupation with good and evil, already in high school, I hated communism. How could one not, I wondered. Along with Nazism, it was the great evil of the 20th century. Needless to say, as a Jew and as a human, I hated Nazism. But as I was born after Nazism was vanquished, the great evil of my time was communism.
Communists murdered about 100 million people -- all noncombatants and all innocent. Stalin murdered about 30 million people, including 5 million Ukrainians by starvation (in just two years: 1932-33). Mao killed about 60 million people. Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge (Red Cambodians) killed about 3 million people, one in every four Cambodians, between 1975 and 1979. The North Korean communist regime killed between 2 million and 3 million people, not including another million killed in the Korean War started by the North Korean communists.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: cowardice; hatred; shamne
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At the end of the article, Dennis Prager identifies antisemitism as a contributing factor for hatred of those who are fighters against evil.
1 posted on 10/01/2024 4:57:53 AM PDT by Stepan12
To: Stepan12
Evil individuals hate those who fight them.
2 posted on 10/01/2024 4:59:33 AM PDT by PGalt ( Past Peak Civilization?)
To: Stepan12
3 posted on 10/01/2024 5:02:10 AM PDT by nopardons
To: Stepan12
It’s only the normal “human condition” to see this phenomenon when the people who are making the judgements are not the ones attacked or directly threatened by the evil.
It’s a social state where people who are observing a regular condition of peace or at least order, and they are benefiting from it, or at least feel personally safe in it, get very agitated by visible aggression. You can see this a lot with individuals, when the person who instigates and provokes someone into a reaction is not corrected, even if their provocation is violent. It is the one who reacts or retaliates who is almost always punished.
Why?
Usually it is because the provocations went unnoticed or were ignored.
4 posted on 10/01/2024 5:04:27 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
To: Stepan12
John 15:18-25
King James Version
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
5 posted on 10/01/2024 5:04:57 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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