Do you know that, some of the leaders who destroyed the whole Cambodia during the reign of terror thirty years ago, were so far not received any sentence?
They said that, well, the Pol Pot was the leader who brainwashed us, and he ordered us to kill all the anti-revolutionaries, including the new-born who had the connection with their parents. Well, they asked for forgiveness. They asked for mercy so they can die with their terminal diseases.
It was the most challenging questions to all the people in the world: who to judge the moral cases? Jesus Christ? or everyone of us, according to Nietzsche?
The Christians could say, well, forgive them, for they are also the sons and daughters of God. If they slap you on the left, you let them slap you on the right. Does it mean that the rest of Cambodians should be slaughtered by their orders then?
Nietzsche said, well, judge them with our eyes, for God is dead, and we have no absolute rules to rely on but ourselves. We can see what to do and who to punish. Judgement is the answer from us to the world, which is also the only way to express our existence. Live as a Lion.
P.S. Indeed, there is nothing new under the sun. Do you know Judgment at Nuremberg?
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