http://pnwriders.com/blogs/nocontrol74/ Motorcycle rides and riders in Washington Oregon Idaho British Columbia en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:13:05 GMT vBulletin 60 http://pnwriders.com/images_pnw/misc/rss.jpg http://pnwriders.com/blogs/nocontrol74/ http://pnwriders.com/blogs/nocontrol74/31-not-all-people-hollywood-complete-morons.html Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:15:50 GMT So, Will Smith is getting lambasted in the press for some remarks he made to The Daily Press. Smith said:

"Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was good"

The reporter preceded the quote by saying "Remarkably, Will believes everyone is basically good."

That is exactly the wrong point. What Smith was really saying was "No one thinks of themselves as bad". This is a fairly profound train of thought. From Osama Bin Laden to your shithead boss, no one thinks that the things that they do are wrong, much less evil.

No matter how many people think that GWB is a simple headed, religious zealot, he sits down in the oval office every day thinking that what he is doing is right, perhaps even more so because of how much criticism he receives. No matter how much the world looked on in horror, Saddam Hussein was sure to have perfectly good reasons for gassing the Kurds.

I guess the point is that we should always consider the possibility that that "the other guy" thinks that he is just as right as we think we are.... ]]> nocontrol74 http://pnwriders.com/blogs/nocontrol74/31-not-all-people-hollywood-complete-morons.html