Reply #18: neither one-

[Bluerthanblue]

IS "the eviler one"-

Both have been instrumental in encouraging actions which are often called 'evil'.

The numbers are irrelevent- Does the death of 10 people cancel out the death of 6?

Only if all you care about are numbers- it doesn't matter if it was one- it is still wrong.

"Evil is as evil does" says more to me about the fact that you can 'talk' the talk all you like-
You can have all the political spinmasters working overtime to try and sanitize your deeds.
But the deeds will speak louder than any words, and cannot be hidden forever.

Bottom line, they are mere men. Not 'monsters' not 'evil incarnate'- not any other fancy name we put on people to try and seperate 'them' from 'us'- as if by doing so, we keep ourselves safe from having to realize that we are capable of doing equally terrible things. And if we start thinking that we are immune to being cruel and ruthless, we don't listen when our better angels say "consider carefully".