[JessaminePoppy]

I don't think you can say a country is evil. Maybe that their administration is a sham, a dictatorship, a corrupt and declining system, but innocent people still live there. If they have been oppressed forever and don't know the basic human rights, what can they do if this "evil" is all they have ever known?

Sure, Hitler was evil, Stalin was evil, etc. But America, responsible for the atomic bombings of Nagaski and Hiroshima, isn't? And the some of the Nazis didn't know heck about what was really going on.

All countries have done things of which no one can be proud: the British invented concentration camps in colonies, most European countries and also the U.S. did awful things to natives and so on... yet nowadays do we consider ourselves evil?

I doubt the British government "thought it was ok" for British people to be murdered. Politics come into this and I bet they're super complicated and crappy and probably won't make sense nowadays. I try to remember that practically everything we are taught, we read, see on the news is out of context and from a Western perspective.

I'm not sure if that made sense.

[Transcendence]

(Original post by JessaminePoppy)
I don't think you can say a country is evil. Maybe that their administration is a sham, a dictatorship, a corrupt and declining system, but innocent people still live there. If they have been oppressed forever and don't know the basic human rights, what can they do if this "evil" is all they have ever known?

Sure, Hitler was evil, Stalin was evil, etc. But America, responsible for the atomic bombings of Nagaski and Hiroshima, isn't? And the some of the Nazis didn't know heck about what was really going on.

All countries have done things of which no one can be proud: the British invented concentration camps in colonies, most European countries and also the U.S. did awful things to natives and so on... yet nowadays do we consider ourselves evil?

I doubt the British government "thought it was ok" for British people to be murdered. Politics come into this and I bet they're super complicated and crappy and probably won't make sense nowadays. I try to remember that practically everything we are taught, we read, see on the news is out of context and from a Western perspective.

I'm not sure if that made sense.

You say this as though everyone is of the same opinion on these matters. What about the people who don't consider them to be evil?

[Transcendence]

(Original post by bestofyou)
4 commonwealth citizens where murdered and two British citizens.

Also, they where concerned enough to fund the genocide...

If they weren't in the country, they wouldn't have died. And theres a difference between "funding", and "profiting from". Funding is expending money, whereas profiting is gaining money. Profit is good. Funding is bad.

[JessaminePoppy]

(Original post by Transcendence)
You say this as though everyone is of the same opinion on these matters. What about the people who don't consider them to be evil?

You mean the neo-nazis who love Hitler and the people who thought Pinochet and Stalin were great? Weeell, as long as those people don't actually do anything that endangers or harms others, there's not much to be that can be done.

[Snagprophet]

Lol at those simplifying everything.