Moral Certainty is Dangerous.

Moral Certainty is dangerous. As humans we should strive to see the nuance in everything. Complementing this - The Nazis were evil. I believe that. I don’t think that there’s value in revisiting that judgement. But that moral certainty doesn’t stop being dangerous just because it’s definitive.

In fact, it makes me wonder. Does living in the second half of the twentieth century. Is there a certain psychology that comes from being able to point to evil? We see impacts of this. Arguments on the internet devolving to the point that someone is called Hitler. But the most potent propaganda is true propaganda. Propaganda doesn’t have to be a lie. And there’s a quality about being able to look back through history, a danger in being able to say: “That group was evil. That person was evil. Maybe this group is evil. Maybe this person is evil.

This is a mild version of this question but - does the Lord of the Rings become as popular as it is without World War 2 happening. It was never meant to be an allegory, but it necessarily becomes one in the mind of readers.

Again, this is a paradox. It’s unresolvable. The answer is not to revisit our judgement of the Nazis.