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In Love and Light
from Erika Kind
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In Love and Light
“I was motivated by absolutely humane feelings. I never had any other intention. I never had any other belief than that those poor miserable creatures-that the painful lives of these creatures were to be shortened.”
Karl Brandt, the physician who suggested that Hitler use poison gas to exterminate the Jews.
To Karl Brandt, the people he murdered weren’t human.
They were creatures.
They were “those” poor miserable creatures.
Brandt told himself that killing Jews was an act of mercy; the behavior
of a civilized man.
M. Scott Peck, the psychiatrist who authored, The Road Less Traveled, described evil as a form of “militant ignorance“.
He addressed human evil in “People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil“.
According to Peck an evil person tells himself he’s doing good to keep up
an image of perfection.
They,
For me, the most horrific aspect of the violence I experienced as a child was the worst anti-Semitic beatings were given by adults in the neighborhood.
I was that Jew.
That Christ killer.
The adults at that time felt they had a moral duty to debase and humiliate
me.
How is it different today?
How does it feel to the six-year-old son of impoverished immigrants who hears his parents described vermin?
What happens when a society abuses children as a matter of policy?
What happens to America with a President who incites violence?
M. Scott Peck defines evil as the use of cruelty against people who
cannot defend themselves.
Thank you to the men and women who fought for and won my right to vote this November 6.
Thank you Victoria Claflin Woodhull, the first Woman to run for President, 1872
“I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Victoria Claflin Woodhull
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it. Victoria Claflin Woodhull
Digital painting of Victoria Claflin Woodhull based on a photograph in the public domain