(11-22-2017, 02:12 PM)Cynic Hero Wrote: What I was saying is that why is everyone unthinkingly declaring Manson as evil. As he himself pointed out; Manson did not murder anybody.
By that criterion, Adolf Hitler, who is never accused of having visited any of the concentration camps or having ever shot, beheaded, hanged, or gassed anyone, ordered people worked to exhaustion on starvation rations, fed people to predatory animals, or burned anyone alive is not guilty of such deeds committed in the Holocaust.
If you plan a crime that results in a murder, then you are a murderer. Manson is one of the most widely hated people in America, perhaps for reasons other than his complicity in the Tate-LaBianca killings.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.