the capacity for thought, consciousness – conscience. But then isn’t he a monster simply?’
So does it means that if we do not have consciousness thought, we are also monsters? In other words, are these what made us a human?
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it seemed absolutely inexplicable that Eichmann could have played a key role in the Nazi genocide yet have no evil intentions.
It is related to the text, when the beautiful aliens come, people welcome, but though the text, we could infer that they could be the one killing all the other aliens and destroy their home-planet.
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he was a man who drifted into the Nazi Party, in search of purpose and direction
then can we argue that he is morally wrong, but having a sense of purpose?
Maybe not because he does not understand what kind of crime he was committing.
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Lacking this particular cognitive ability, he ‘commit[ted] crimes under circumstances that made it well-nigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he [was] doing wrong’.
in other words, it is impossible for him/her to realize that he is committing a crime because he is lack of cognitive learning.
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Instead, he performed evil deeds without evil intentions, a fact connected to his ‘thoughtlessness’
connecting to the argument over "Adopt to the environment or be consistent to the own belief"
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