Comments by "Golag Is watching you" (@golagiswatchingyou2966) on "The Philosophy and History Behind Lord of the Rings" video.

  1. I love this video. on the issue of evil though, while real evil does exist it also matters to the perception of the person who sees it and ask the question if they think it's worth it to realise their goal/dream. for example, take the nazi's who wanted to created their utopian vision but to do so they believed they needed to do horrible things, many of their focus points ironically are somewhat in line with what Tolkin wrote being good, like the preservation of nature (animal rights, environmentalism, vegitarianism) and trying to be in line with biological realities (social darwinism, Eugenics, birthrates) and expansionism to secure what they need long term. Thus for many both back then and people today they view what happened as either nessisary or unfortunate but would not consider it evil just for being evil but as a nessisary evil, same with Communism, social justice and other ideologies which also include religions like Christianity, Islam or the Jewish faith. evil does exist in the sense that sadistic people with desires to see the world or civilization destroyed exist but that most of what we consider evil are just normal people who believe in their own visions of the future that they are willing in full or in part to give up their humanity or come to view certain people as being evil (aka given up their humanity) to justify their own cruelty, it can also be that hatred of your enemies can make it easier to destroy them, which is why you can see soldiers being very cruel to their enemies because viewing them as less then human makes it easier for yourself to destroy them and thus survive, there is a evolutionary benefit in doing so, it's not always ideal or justified and often driven by fear but it is there. evil is both subjective and very real but most people are just normal that can become forced or possed by ideas that drives them towards violence because they see it as nessisary, almost nobody wakes up thinking ''ohhh boy here I go killing again'' most people simply follow orders or convince themselves what they are doing is nessisary and sometimes even good to justify giving up part of their humanity.
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