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Originally posted by juppy
I still have to disagree with you on this point. Like corosus pointed out, how many people consider themselves to actually be evil? None that I know of. That's why I said it is a matter of perspective. It's whatever side you agree with.
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Ok, let me set the record straight. There is right and wrong. There is NO moral relativity, it simply is an impossible philosophical condition, it does not and cannot exist.
The Borg issue of of their evil comes down to this maxim regarding freedom: You can do anything you want as long as you don't exert force against someone else.
The term "someone" denotes the fact that the soul exists, hence ants and other animals have no rights or freedom to be violated.
So it is safe and true to say things like it is evil for my Japanese ancestors to have invaded Shanghai and killed hundreds of thousands before WWII and to have attacked Pearl Harbor without declaring war, while it was definitely not evil for the U.S. to carpet-bomb Tokyo with fire bombs or to drop two atomic bombs on my mothers' homeland in an effort to stop the war with Japan and save millions of Japanese civilians' lives, notwithstanding my mother and hence, years later, me.
Here, the Japanese were acting like the Borg and the U.S. was defending herself from their assimilation.