Maybe you saw a car on fire in Colorado and threw blankets on it, she suggested — that’s great.
This shows fake empathy, just like the beautiful aliens who don't actually support the first group of aliens.
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I believe that September 11 was cited to justify the deployment of the men who appeared onscreen next, the ICE agents arresting meatpackers with their hairnets still on.
So does blaming a kind of tragedy make it easier for people to accept harming the innocent people?
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The US is filled with “pretty nice guys” who are ready to inflict, who have already inflicted, senseless and life-shattering violence on innocent, impoverished people.
There is a connection between nice guys and violence. If cruelty doesn't come from obvious people, then is "niceness" just a fake thing, and does it make the actions worse?
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Willow’s presence elicited coos of sympathy from agents whose job it is to impose unshakable traumas on the wretched of the earth.
It is an ironic observation, where they focus on comfort for agents who cause harm but not the people to arrest and harm.
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I bought some food at a Walmart and then spoke to a man in the parking lot who had sawed a square hole into the back of his truck and inserted a window-unit air conditioner inside of it
This shows a strange kind of way of problem solving and contrasts with the place inside the job fair.
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“I’m a normal person. When I go to Walmart, I look for the beer in the exact middle of the price range.”
This is an interesting way of proving someone is normal, where he talked about a small and common thing.
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The memoir [by Eichmann] released by Israel for use in my trial reveals the degree to which Arendt was wrong about Eichmann. It is permeated with expressions of Nazi ideology… [Eichmann] accepted and espoused the idea of racial purity.
This quote is interesting because it uses Eichmann's own words to directly challenge Arendt's theory.
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Eichmann ‘never realised what he was doing’ due to an ‘inability… to think from the standpoint of somebody else’.
It is interesting because it explains the causes of these evil actions, where people act evil because they lack the ability for empathy and thinking from another perspective.
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It is inherent in our entire [Western] philosophical tradition that we cannot conceive of a ‘radical evil’…
It connects to the text because it shows that people are failing to understand the radical evil, just like the killing done by the aliens.
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Wolfe argued that Arendt concentrated too much on who Eichmann was, rather than what Eichmann did.
So when determining if someone is evil or not, should we actually focus on their characters or what they do and their consequences?
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‘[I]t seems to me that what you are saying is that Eichmann lacks an inherent human quality: the capacity for thought, consciousness – conscience. But then isn’t he a monster simply?’
It indicates that people without consciousness are just monsters and considered evil, but why should consciousness be valued so much that it simply determines if someone is a monster or not?
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Arendt found Eichmann an ordinary, rather bland, bureaucrat, who in her words, was ‘neither perverted nor sadistic’, but ‘terrifyingly normal’.
It is interesting because it contrasts terrifying and normal and suggests that normal people can also be the ones who causes danger and be evil.
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