getoffthedove asked: Obviously you never read Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem." Eichmann never hated Jews, and never committed any violence against the Jews, the point of the study is that he was "simply following orders." So to say that it's some how a great justice is kind of ridiculous, because Eichmann admitted to having many Jewish friends, whom he had spared from the Holocaust, which he felt guilt about because he was disobeying orders. So your comment on that photo is uneducated at best. The more you know...

I’m not sure if it’s more disconcerting that you believe the chief organizer of one of the biggest genocides in history wasn’t a bigot or that you read “Eichman in Jerusalem” and simply didn’t understand it.

Either way you are a Nazi appologist and ignorant scum.

Orchestrating and campaigning for extermination, wether you physically participate or not, makes you guilty of the crimes against humanity that are committed. Eichman stated he was simply following orders to further his career. Any sociopath who doesn’t place a litteral bodycount on the cost of their own advancement deserves worse than the simple hanging that he got.

The banality of evil argument refers to the fact that every human being is capable of evil, not that they are excused from committing it. This is actually the argument that Arendt makes in the book if you’d bothered to read it. Her whole idea is based on the fact that every person has free will and that the key to that life is not embracing the savagery that we are cabable of like the Eichmans of the world do.

No Nazi, no fascist, and no one who sympathizes with either of the two deserves any kind of quarter or excuse for what they do. Tyrany and unfounded hatred will always exist but there will also always be people ready to claim vengance against the injustices committed by the spiteful.

They deserve what’s coming to them.