March 17, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
04:30
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| And every evil that I know of in the Western world, communism, Nazism, fascism, racism, slavery, you name it, everybody engaged in it thought they were doing good, or thought they were good, certainly. | |
| So thinking you're good means zilch, with a capital Z. It's a big dilemma, my friends. | |
| Big dilemma. | |
| Fort Myers, Florida, and Christopher, hello. | |
| Hello. | |
| So... | |
| Hey, Dennis. | |
| Yes. | |
| So, I wanted to comment on your... | |
| You said people do not go to sleep and then wake up and say, oh, I'm going to do evil today. | |
| That's right. | |
| So, I understand that question, but... | |
| Most people... | |
| So my parents adopted kids, and their stepfather, I guess you could say, beat their sister, who is now... | |
| Right, okay, so I said earlier... | |
| You're right, you're right. | |
| So let me explain. | |
| I'm glad you called. | |
| I said it, but I don't expect people to hear everything I say, and I say that with respect. | |
| Especially when things are new, it's hard to hear everything. | |
| I was clear as a bell. | |
| Individual evil. | |
| I said like carving up people. | |
| You can use child abuse. | |
| Beating a spouse. | |
| Individual evil. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I will get to that in a moment. | |
| But that's not what I'm talking about. | |
| Talking about the evil that has caused a hundred million deaths in the 20th century. | |
| That statistically way, way outdoes spousal abuse in terms of people who are killed, murdered, etc. | |
| I'm talking about ideological evil. | |
| Every ideological evil is done by people thinking they're doing good. | |
| As regards individual evil, like... | |
| Spousal abuse or child abuse even, I don't know the answer. | |
| If you asked a man who abused a prepubescent child, I'm taking prepubescent because that is so obviously evil. | |
| So that's why I'm taking it. | |
| So what does this man think? | |
| To the extent that I am aware, and it's not a huge extent, I've done some reading, but I do not claim expertise in the arena. | |
| Their self-image is of a lover of children, not an abuser of children. | |
| Not in all cases. | |
| In some cases, they know that they are, I presume. | |
| Very few people, including those who abuse a spouse, the wife abuser or the husband abuser, sees him or herself as a victim lashing out at a perpetrator. | |
| They don't think, oh, I'm whacking my spouse because I'm a piece of crap. | |
| They don't do that. | |
| I'm whacking, I'm hurting my spouse because they deserve it. | |
| You know how much they do X, Y, or Z? So even there, not in all cases, I mean, in the case of the psychopathological individual, the one who lacks the ability to empathize, that person does not think they're doing good. | |
| They don't think they're doing bad. | |
| They don't think about good and bad. | |
| There are such people. | |
| They are responsible for a very small part of evil in the human condition. |
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