@timunderwood9,
timunderwood9;95400 wrote:That the psychology of a military leader has some relationship to that of a gamer seems plausible.
I think however a fundamental aspect of being a moral human being is being aware of when actual human beings are being affected.
Is it not mere an idea, o materialist? It's just that we are taught that we should think that no one will be abused by our actions. Had we been taught to neglect other, that we shouldn't pay attention to their suffering because they belong to, say, inferior race, we wouldn't even think of them. That would be another kind of morality, if morality is a set of beliefs, as thy definition implies that to be.
But when we kill them OURSELVES, it is absolutely another situation. The very sight of suffering, of blood, surely are different from the idea that we should think of others. This demands way more brutality that just signing an order.
timunderwood9;95400 wrote:Also I would not want to argue that most of us are better people than Hitler, with the basis being that we haven't had millions of people killed. We obviously have never been in the same location as Hitler, and thus have no basis for arguing that we would act differently (as a determinist I think the idea that we would be different from Hitler, if we were Hitler, is silly).
I am not arguing with this. My point was that Hitler, if he wasn't an insane, could not have done all those things like killing children, old people etc., if he'd had to do that with his own hands, so to say This was done just because there is always an army of slaves whcih is ready to fullfill every command.