Talk:Banality of evil

message: I re-added the link to "Questioning the Banality of Evil" which I found very valuable and I believe was removed without sufficient cause. ModernHacker (talk) 15:45, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

message: I have restored my expansion of this stub, which was requested. Atlan, don't vandalize this. Your action was banally evil in itself.
:Continue, and I will act on your constant block evasion. Be happy that I let you edit at all.--Atlan (talk) 13:14, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You cite nothing. You always give your personal opinion on matters. Go write a blog or start your very own Nilgespedia. Just don't dump your opinionated pieces of OR here.--Atlan (talk) 17:58, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Atlan, I checked edits and I mostly agree with you. However this sentence seems neutral to me, and relevant to the book: "Arendt noted that Eichmann produced arguments for his behavior like a "normal" person and even claimed to be following Kant's maxim to "so act that your action may be recommended as a general moral law".". It cites the book itself. Could it be reintroduced, maybe with a bit more of context? Just an idea. --Cyclopia (talk) 15:27, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, of course. Edward Nilges is a smart guy and he would be a valuable contributor if he could just adhere to NPOV and cite his edits. I generally don't take the time to extricate anything useful from his edits if they are so blatantly POV. If you care to use any on his deleted edits, feel free to do so.--Atlan (talk) 17:10, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  hey don't vandalize, and do your job 

message: Might not belong here (in fact, probably doesn't), but Goldhagen's reaction to the Milgram experiments was a classic example of someone raging against the "banality of evil" argument.  Milgram essentially proved that most people could be induced to commit an evil act.  Goldhagen was offended by this and contends that the Nazis exhibited an especially severe brand of evilness.  208.181.100.18 04:12, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  banality of evil proved 

message: The article title was capitalized shortly after its creation with the comment "Phrase is always capitalised". Well, of course it's not always capitalized—I don't think it ever is. Arendt didn't capitalize it. I would have been bold and moved the article, but I can't because of a silly bot edit on the redirect page. -- BenRG (talk) 14:47, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Closing early. This is indeed an uncontroversial move blocked by a silly bot edit.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:19, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Move to "banality of evil"

message: A link to someone's obituary doesn't constitute a citation.  
Secondary literature is needed.
Citations in general are needed.  CheersDiotemaheartsphilosophy (talk) 20:47, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

message: The body of the article begins with the line: "Intuition of Hannah Arendt was confirmed..." This isn't grammatical English (although it might conceivably be grammatical Russian). I have no idea what the author had in mind so I don't want to touch it, but someone who knows about the subject might like to have a go. 203.129.46.247 (talk) 01:13, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Style edit needed 

message: I'm not saying that the Tuskegee Experiments weren't a bad thing, I just don't see how a request for autopsies could have anything at all to do with this particular article, and so I'm taking the liberty of removing it. Kalmbach (talk) 07:29, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I actually think the picture is a great illustration of the topic, although totally against WP:NOR policy. Jaque Hammer (talk) 01:12, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The picture is almost too good an illustration of banality. I suggest that the average reader would react, "Autopsy requests? So what?" Hence, a mention in the article is seriously needed. Depending on consensus, I (or someone else) may post something like the following as the next-to-last paragraph of the article:
The accompanying illustration of banality comes from the records of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment: a perfectly ordinary piece of bureaucratic trivia, even conscientiously updated by hand. The evils of the experiment itself have become routine.
--LCE(talk contribs) 10:11, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Superfluous Picture 

message: How about a merge with Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil?  I think the book and the concept are linked and you can't really have an article on one without talking about the other.  Readers would be better served to have all the info in one article. BayShrimp (talk) 00:07, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge?