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Originally posted by jaguar
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The other thing I feel is worth mention is people do bad things when they don't even know it.
Take for example, going on a P&O cruise, the chances are the ship is registered in Liberia and the money from that supports one of the most brutal and despotic regimes in Africa (no mean feat). The world's a moral quagmire, pick your fights carefully.
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Thanks, Jag.
And I agree that ignorance is responsible for much of the bad things that happen in this world. As I understood SM's question, though, he was asking why good people knowingly do bad things, so I left ignorance out of my discussion.
Still, its a highly interesting point. After WWII the average German would tell anybody who bothered to ask that the German people didn't really understand that Hitler was busily killing 6 million people right out in the front yard. Its hard to believe that someone wouldn't have noticed this going on, but Germans at the time mostly swore that they had no idea.
I think they were actually telling the truth - on one level, anyhow. Ignorance really was bliss for the average citizen in Nazi Germany. If you were a person of integrity and you looked around you at what was going on, you were left with two nasty choices: Turn traitor to your own country and most likely be killed for your efforts, or accept the understanding and be quiet about it - keep your nightmares to yourself and go throw up in private. It was better to just "take the blue pill" and avoid the entire issue.