Will Smith On Hitler

What a steaming intestinal sculpture !

The question is: So what if, when awakening, Hitler didn't say, "Let me do the most evil thing I can do today."? It's an irrelevancy that cuddles the obvious into a quivering jelly. And in fact, how do we know that Hitler didn't know he was being evil? And even if he didn't think his decisions and actions were "evil," so what? It is ideologies/religiosities such as Smith's that inevitably lead to stupid comments because it requires the redefinition or reconnotation of commonly used words like "good." Smith apparently made this quotation based on a belief that all people start out "basically good." Well IMHO that's crappola! Some people, maybe when they were toddlers, were basically good. But Hitler was NOT good when he was a man. Did HE think he was doing evil? Irrelevant. That is to judged by others ... and I think the consensus opinion there is that Hitler was NOT a good person.

It would like the following: I'm a fan of Pol Pot. I choose to redefine democracy to contain an aspect of fatal authoritarianism as practiced by Pol Pot. And then I say during Pot's reign, "Cambodia is a most democratic nation." You can't redefine words and then expect to be taken seriously. Whether someone is good or not is not something judged by the person being judged. History, other people, even winners decide that ...