THE TOLERATION OF EVIL
[The following article is an abbreviation of a report I wrote for the Freedom Research Foundation, issued on March 25, 2002. Its relevance today is underscored by the Israeli Government voting to expel Yasser Arafat from Israel and Israeli Vice-Premier Ehud Olmert calling for Arafat's outright assassination.]
TTP March 25, 2002
It is impossible for the ordinary human mind to fully grasp the evil of Joseph Stalin. He purposefully engineered the starving to death of over ten million people in Ukraine. In terms of mass murder, Stalin's Ukrainian Holocaust was an even greater crime than Hitler's Jewish Holocaust.
Millions more were hauled off to be enslaved and die in the Gulag, or tortured and shot for the slightest suspicion of anything Stalin was suspicious of. Many of his closest deputies were ordered to put their parents, wives, or children to death to prove their loyalty.
Yet this tyranny, this monstrous evil, is not a mystery. Evil exists, deeply embedded in certain human souls. That isn't mysterious; it is a basic fact of human society. The true mystery is why and how such is evil is tolerated. Stalin tyrannized the Soviet Union for thirty years. In all those years, there is not one single known attempt on his life. Not one.
Which then, is the greater depravity: Stalin killing people, or no one killing him? The former, of course. Evil itself is the greater evil -- but toleration of it is the greater mystery.
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[As promised in last Friday’s HFR, this Monday’s Archive is Solar Warming, originally published in TTP on September 29, 2005: almost 21 years ago. Think of the trillions of dollars wasted on the hoax of Global Warming aka “Climate Change” since then. Yes, trillions, the greatest scam in human history, which perverted science (the only way a scientist could get a government or NGO grant was to “prove” it with GIGO computer models, never to disprove it which is the essence of real science), when it was nothing more than an evidence-free rationale to replace a failed Marxism (after the collapse of the Soviet Union) for fascist control over everyone’s life.
[TTP: RINOs are getting slaughtered in Texas, Mamdani is sending the police forth to actually police NY’s streets, and POTUS has passed his latest health assessment with flying colors – this is a good day to take a break from politics and take a gander at the great unknown.]
Cleaning out the attic, I recently came across my daughter’s first pair of walking shoes. They were the white leather real tie-up shoes where a parent had to actually tie the laces so the child’s foot would be securely held inside the shoe.
Reuters reported this week that virtually all major oil refineries in central Russia have been forced to halt or scale back fuel output after Ukrainian drone strikes. The affected plants represent more than 83 million metric tons of annual refining capacity — roughly one quarter of Russia’s total — and account for more than 30 percent of Russian gasoline and about a quarter of its diesel.
For the last year and a half, Americans have been slammed with politics to the point that it has made vast numbers of people nearly crazy.
People who are extroverts – people who are more sociable, who like to be out, talk, and interact with other people, and who gladly put themselves out into new situations – tend to be happier than people who are not.
