Will Smith has surprised me twice in the past week. He surprised me last week when we went to see I Am Legend and I discovered that he’s quite capable of doing actual acting, and what’s more he’s good at it. And he surprised me today by saying that Hitler was, at heart, a good person. His exact words, according to the Yahoo! News item I just linked to, are:
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’. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming.
And y’know, I’m inclined to agree with him. I firmly believe that everyone is, at their core, a Good Person capable of Good Things. Hitler probably thought he was doing something Good, although the rest of the world completely disagreed with him, and still does to this day.
Still, Will Smith loses the argument because of Godwin’s Law.
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