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   On Thu, 20 Mar 2025, Ed Cryer wrote:   
      
   > Many years ago, 1945, in Berlin a 14 yr old boy was ushered into the grounds   
   > of the Führerbunker. He'd halted the approach of a Russian tank, and was   
   > being commended. His Führer paced the row he was in, came and stood before   
   > him and congratulated him.   
   > The boy smiled into the eyes of the utterly devastated Reichs Chancellor and   
   > blushed. He felt signally honoured; and he remembered this all the days of   
   > his life.   
   > He had blue eyes, blond hair, and was Meisterrasse und Übermensch in one   
   > bundle. Innocent, but trusting of his betters.   
   >   
   > Now, I've posted this to test reaction.   
   > To some this will seem an abomination. To others, including myself, it will   
   > bring tears, because it echoes such a dichotomy of feelings. On the one hand   
   > you have the love for children, for their trusting innocence, for their being   
   > the future; on the other hand the evil of Nazism.   
   >   
   > I see this as a paradigm for so much of life. Good and bad all rolled into   
   > the fabric of lived experience. You long to untangle it, live only for the   
   > good; but it only comes wrapped up with evil.   
   >   
   > Ed   
   >   
      
   True. In art, binary distinctions such as good and evil is boring. I like   
   grey morals and dilemmas. Those are what make life interesting. Good   
   example!   
      
   As a materialist, or physicalist if you prefer the modern word for it, I   
   do not believe in any morals or ethics in the world. I believe it is   
   entirely subjective.   
      
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