{"id":9145,"date":"2012-12-14T04:56:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T04:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/14\/dalrymple-on-inhumanity\/"},"modified":"2012-12-14T04:56:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T04:56:45","slug":"dalrymple-on-inhumanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/14\/dalrymple-on-inhumanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalrymple on Inhumanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newenglishreview.org\/custpage.cfm\/frm\/128528\/sec_id\/128528\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a>. Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Nevertheless, no one could read this book [<em>Golden Harvest: Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust <\/em>by Jan Tomasz Gross] without being, yet again, horrified by man\u2019s inhumanity to man. Indeed, the term <em>inhumanity <\/em>seems almost an odd one in the circumstances, assuming as it does that Man\u2019s default setting is to decency and kindness, whereas the evidence presented in this book is that, once legal and social restraints are removed, Man becomes an utter savage.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Exactly right.&#0160; One of the most pernicious illusions of the Left is that human beings are basically good and decent, and that society has corrupted them.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">According to Gross, people of all social strata in Poland gladly, even joyfully, plundered their Jewish neighbours; if so, they were not unique in having done so, for it happened across Europe during Nazi occupation, while in Rwanda, in 1994, ordinary Hutus happily and without conscience appropriated the property of their erstwhile but now massacred Tutsi neighbours.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Related articles<\/span><\/legend>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0px; width: 84px; text-align: left; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: top; float: left; display: block;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/12\/a-school-of-humility.html\" style=\"padding: 2px; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none; display: block; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/131665041_80_80.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; width: 80px; display: block; max-width: 100%;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/12\/a-school-of-humility.html\" style=\"padding: 5px 2px 0px; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; display: block;\" target=\"_blank\">A School of Humility?<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here. 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