Do you feel sorry for Hitler and Stalin??

Trolling said:

Just noticed...

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GreatwhiteNorth said:

Then again, George Santayana put it most succinctly with "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".

There are lots of history I hope won't repeat itself, but knowing mankind - we're just dumb enough to do stupid shit more than once.
~I'll bet that will never make it to Wikkiquote's~

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makaha99 said:

Did you know that Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin were both beaten by their fathers when they were children? In fact, both of them ended up in the hospital in a coma, after being beaten up very badly by their father. Both Hitler's and Stalin's mothers were also beaten by their fathers. Both Hitler and Stalin hated their fathers with a passion, as you can imagine. Both were incredibly heartbroken when their mothers died fairly early in their lives. They both had incredibly horrible childhoods.

I "almost" felt sorry for them when I learned about this. Notice I put "almost" in quotes, because I believe that no matter how hard your childhood was, that just does NOT justify killing millions of people, literally, in some kind of twisted revenge against the world. I was lucky that I had loving parents, and there is no way I can ever know exactly what it is like to be abused by one's parents. But I just cannot condone them for what they did, no matter how hard their childhood was. I think most people would feel the same, I think.

Having said that....if I didn't have loving parents, if I had a horrible abusive father like Hitler and Stalin had, would I have come out the same as them?? If you had a father like Hitler and Stalin had, would you end up like them?

What do you guys think?

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