In Celebration · 3:31am Jul 5th, 2014
In order to assuage their consciences, Nazi prison guards used to phrase their actions as a moral tragedy. "Oh, what a terrible thing it is, how much character I had to have to allow these things to happen." This sort of Kantian reversal, where evil is represented as a moral imperative that must come to have happened, is the structure on which all modern war crimes are built.
One only has to watch the wretched pieces of human garbage weeping and retching in The Act of Killing to understand how hollow this idiotic cry is.
Also, if you found these comics amusing, they're from Sidewalk Bubblegum. A complete archive to be found here.
I am properly horrified. Which amazes me... how can I not be jaded by now? I must be broken, somehow.
Also, I was amused. I will check out Sidewalk Bubblegum.