Voldemort and Osama bin Laden - are there parallels?

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This is absolutely wacked up!

[Aegine]

It's just absurd I think you can compare Voldemort to just about any "evil" historical figure.

[Sarah]

Isaac wrote: "Keamy May wrote: "I think it is responsible to believe that Voldemort is an example of a truly evil person...Hitler and Laden are both truly evil people..so there is a similarity in that since."

I..."

I have more sympathy for Laden because he was raised that way to believe that what he was doing was alright. But Hitler knew what he was doing was wrong(especially considering he was part Jewish)...Wishing all Jews where dead/wishing Islam ruled the world would is very different from taking part in torturing and or killing thousands or millions of innocent people that to me is evil.
Some people are messed up as you put it...I am unable to call someone who wants to/has killed thousands/millions of people because they are not Islamic or are Jewish anything less then evil.
People who FEEL that way and don't act on it are messed up people...people who act on it are not messed up and are evil. That is just how I feel about it.

[Aegine]

I think Bin Laden would be called an "extremist" or however you spell it, since most Muslims don't think that way. I heard on the news yesterday, I think, that Bin Laden had addressed the uprising in Egypt and other places, saying that Muslims should rule the world but the newsreporter interviewed other Muslims and they barely reacted at all.

[Aegine]

Isaac wrote: "Keamy May wrote: "Isaac wrote: "Keamy May wrote: "I think it is responsible to believe that Voldemort is an example of a truly evil person...Hitler and Laden are both truly evil people..so there is..."

So is it nurture or nature that these people have turned out so badly? I myself think it's a little of both; it kinda depends on the person. In Voldy's case, his family had a history of craziness and nad tempers (I believe Dumbledore says this) and perhaps he was mistreated at the orphanage. Perhaps Voldy's case is more nature than nuture because you don't see other orphans becoming mass killers (but then you really don't see them again so how can you really compare?)

In Bin Laden's case, maybe it's more nurture thana nature. I think KeamyMay says Bin Laden was raised to believe in this extremist stuff and I really don't know his family background well enough to decide of his family had a history of craziness...

[Simon]

You guys are doing a great job psychoanalyzing a fictional character and a man you've never met, and explaining how they're similar and different.

[Aegine]

Simon wrote: "You guys are doing a great job psychoanalyzing a fictional character and a man you've never met, and explaining how they're similar and different."

Is that sarcasm, mister?