They say that in every human being there is always something good... I don't know, I don't know what good there can be in these people who punish in this way by taking lives.
I'm sure Eva Braun saw something good in Adolf Hitler, at least at some stage. Many probably did. Was he good? Well, that's up to each person to determine for themselves. What I'm trying to say is that you're probably right.
I don't know what good there can be in these people who punish in this way by taking lives.
And in keeping with the World War Two theme...if people (the allies) didn't take lives maybe Germany might have taken the whole of Europe and the UK and then what? I wonder what that alternate reality would have looked like.
As for your last paragraph...Life is always going to throw up challenges and that's when we have a choice. Overcome them, or not. It's a personal choice and one will move forward commensurate to that choice.
An alternative reality... perhaps it is hard for us to stop and do what really corresponds to us as citizens, as perhaps those Christians or non-believers of God that we say we are on a daily basis. But we continue to bet that when we have passion for what we do, principles, and ethics, even with the mistakes as human beings that we are, we manage to do our work with that objectivity of which you speak.