Absolute evil exceeds the categories of punishable and forgivable crime

Evidence

There is only one thing that seems to be discernible: we may say that radical evil has emerged in connection with a system in which all men have become equally superfluous. The manipulators of this system believe in their own superfluousness as much as in that of all others, and the totalitarian murderers arc all the more dangerous because they do not care if they themselves are alive or dead, if they ever lived or never were born. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1034 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Absolute evil reveals evil’s radical essence by exceeding comprehensible motives; Radical evil arises where all people become equally superfluous — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1034; Total terror accelerates the death sentences nature or history have already pronounced

Related

• Radical evil arises where all people become equally superfluous (similarity 0.93)
• Absolute evil is evil detached from any humanly comprehensible motive (similarity 0.88)
• Camp totalitarianism is an all-or-nothing form of radical evil. (similarity 0.83)
• Calling terrorism transcendent evil blocks the worldly analysis needed to counter it (similarity 0.83)
• Absolute evil reveals evil’s radical essence by exceeding comprehensible motives (similarity 0.82)
• Totalitarian domination exceeds utilitarian rule into the realm where everything is possible (similarity 0.79)
• Totalitarian power aims to render human beings superfluous, not merely to rule them (similarity 0.79)
• Extreme evil can stem from meticulous order rather than its breakdown (similarity 0.79)
• Totalitarian ideology requires perpetually new categories of victims to survive (similarity 0.79)
• Modern totalitarian terror rules the obedient rather than punishing rebels. (similarity 0.78)
• Totalitarian domination aims to make all people equally superfluous (similarity 0.78)
• Totalitarian rule requires destroying all autonomous activity, not merely equalizing conditions (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Absolute evil reveals evil’s radical essence by exceeding comprehensible motives #expands (0.95)
• Radical evil arises where all people become equally superfluous #corroborates (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1034