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Some of the very worst of us are capable of some of the most penetrating insights sometimes.
Stalin said that the death of one man is a tragedy but the death of a million(?) is only a statistic.
I have never been able to find the exact words to describe why this resonates so strongly (to me at least) but the first time I saw it I knew it for the truth in respect to the way our minds work within the us/them paradigm.
Most of us would not think twice about sacrificing a thousand strangers to sav our own kids or our own mangy hides.Most of us would probably sacrifice a thousand nieghbors almost as fast but at least most of us would feel some guilt about the nieghbors.
Somebody else said a long time ago that a boil on a man's own neck is more important to him than all the starving people in China.
See Machiavell's opinion on whether it is better to be feared or loved.... Or Col. Kurtz's speech in Apocalypse Now on the need to embrace 'Horror and Moral Terror' - it's deeply depressing. But, history is not fun reading. Our achievements have been built on backs of the most horrible, immoral acts conceivable. If we wish to preserve them (which some may disagree with), I see no alternative to it.