Now that the week’s been rather grim, let’s touch on something else that’s also depressing.
A review in The New Republic discusses comparisons between Hitler and Stalin. Always a dangerous thing to do, but the review points to what is possibly the most ignored lesson of history these days: Nazism assumed that all human traits were based completely on race and biology, but Stalinism assumed that there was no DNA nor human nature. While in theory completely opposed, both assumptions killed millions of people.
Strangely, the dangers of the second assumption are frequently ignored.
I think the most dangerous thing you can do is to think that your personal beliefs are inherently good.
Happy new year.