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The line isn't drawn at the quality of their indoctrination or the evil doers world view. We judge by our own indoctrination and world view.

We for example don't do trial by ethnicity. We don't give a rats ass if the people who caused the German economic problems were Jewish.

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I think you're agreeing with me, if I'm understanding you right.

> Why you call him an evil shill? It sounds like he actually believed it.

> It's not evil to be wrong.

I was responding to this and making the point that we don't often allow it to be this simple. I raised the Germany example to make the point that most consider what the Nazis did evil regardless of whether they honestly believed in their reasoning that lead to genocide.

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