A Levite and his concubine

[abaris]

In other words, your authority is your own conscience, but someone else's conscience may justify it.

And I would not hesitate to call them evil. Believe me, inside I'm barfing at the concept, but the Nazi's conscience was perfectly OK with killing jews. Does that make it right?

Actually, if you look at evolution, it appears that the fittest survive.

What you mean is social Darwinism, which again points to Nazi ideology and Eugenics that actually originated in the USA. Darwin used it in a different context: "better designed for an immediate, local environment". Which doesn't necessarily mean the strongest. In fact, if there's little food, the weakest may be best suited.

I get my ultimate morality from the bible. The bible tells me that genocide is immoral, but it also tells me that governments have the authority to punish wrongdoers by treating them in ways that would be otherwise be immoral. God is our creator and ultimate authority and he has the right to punish us for our wrongdoings. The greatest thing is that because of his love for us, instead of the penalty of eternal death that we should suffer, he paid the price for us. So now, instead we have eternal life, even though we must suffer certain consequences for our sin, such as living in this messed up world.

You believe what you want. That's the beauty of it. According to the above, I certainly don't agree with that, since you're not using your own conscience or head or whatever you want to call it, but what an ancient book tells you to believe in.