RE: Can I just say, and I'm just being honest...
September 26, 2016 at 6:27 am
(This post was last modified: September 26, 2016 at 6:35 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(September 26, 2016 at 6:01 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(September 26, 2016 at 3:54 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: I agree completely with everything you say here. I just don't believe in 'human monsters' because to me calling a human a monster is like calling them subhuman.
Well, we each have that capacity, don't we? If you wish to think of that as "subhuman" -- with all the historical baggage that entails -- I can't stop you.
Agreed. Of course I don't think of it as subhuman which is why I have consistently said that I don't Including in the paragraph of mine that you're quoting
Quote:But I'm not saying that, at all.
I know
Quote: I'm saying that humans have the capacity for both the angelic and the monstrous, and furthermore, I'm not singling out any person, at all, from those capacities.I know. I just asked for your definition of a "human monster"
Quote: You, me, Mother Teresa, Ivan Boesky, Angelica Friar -- we all carry the potential for great good and great evil inside us.
I agree.
Quote:A human monster is anyone who offends me.
Hehe, thank you for your defintion
Quote:Well, you're free to define a term as you wish, as am I.I agree. That's why I asked for your definition because I had given my own already
Quote: Me, I regard anyone who consigns eleven millions to death as a monster.I regard them as a monster too in your sense that I have come to understand after reading this post of yours but not in the sense of the definition I use which is 'subhuman' but you don't regard them subhuman either because you don't define a monster as subhuman.
Quote:And sadly, not the biggest monster in human -- repeat, human -- history. I'm content to let the readership decide.
I'd say that if intentions are taken out of the picture the writers of the Bible and the Koran are the biggest monsters in human history (going by your definition; I don't believe in human monsters by my own definition). I'd say if intentions are put into the picture perhaps someone like Genghis Khan was the biggest monster in human history. (once again: going by your definition; I don't believe in human monsters by my own definition)