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"the evil in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good will without vision can cause as much havoc as evil. Men are more good than bad, and indeed this is not the issue. Just do not know, more or less, and this is called a virtue or vice, as vice more desperate is the vice of ignorance that thinks he knows everything and then allowed to kill " Albert Camus (1947) The

" Common Good "in a community, a race, class, of a State, has been the claim and justification of every tyranny has been imposed on men.

The greatest horrors in history have been committed in the name of altruistic mobile.

"The flaw lies in the human hypocrisy or the nature of the principle?

The biggest butchers were the most sincere.

believed in the perfect society reached through the stake, the guillotine or the firing squad. Nobody questioned their right to murder, for murdering a patriotic purpose.

was accepted that man should be enslaved by other men.

Nobody questioned the high taxes because they "steal for the crown" - or country - or steal to others with a selfless purpose.
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actors, but the course of the tragedy remains the same: a humanitarian who starts with declarations of love for mankind and ends with a sea of \u200b\u200bblood.

This phenomenon continues and will continue as long as men believe that the action is good if it is altruistic or patriotic.

That allows patriotism and altruism act and forces his victim to endure.

The leaders of the patriotic movements ask nothing for themselves. But look at the results.

learn from the hands of Kant - who had welcomed the French Revolution - that can commit the most heinous crimes in the name of freedom, equality and fraternity.

also taught us that fanaticism - born of patriotism, altruism and the idea of \u200b\u200bthe common good - is always wrong and incompatible with the goal of a peaceful and pluralistic society, and it is our duty to oppose any form, even if their goals are ethically unobjectionable and even more when their goals coincide with our own personal goals.

Do not show us the history of religions and revolutions that the fanatical belief in an ethical idea not only corrupts, but time and again turns into its opposite? Popper.

" The main problem of our time .... not due to our moral evil but rather to our often misguided moral enthusiasm, to our anxiety to improve the world in which we live. Our wars are fundamentally religious wars are wars among competing theories on how to establish a better world. And our moral enthusiasm is often misdirected, because we realize that our moral principles which are generally very simple, they are usually difficult to apply to complex human situations and policies which must necessarily apply "K. Popper. An optimistic view

intellectuals to trust their ideas build beautiful and pleasant fictions (Matrix).

The intellectual utopia - whether left or right - believe that the perfect social system is perfectly possible, and only the ignorance of some, versus perfect knowledge of others, prevents it. Cree also fully aware means that social system are achievable.

Therefore, a good world, however imperfect, is intolerable. Is consistent: if the social perfection is just around the corner, why not speed up your conclusion? And if some, through ignorance or selfishness, hinder it, is it not justifiable a just war against them? Thus Popper has captured so deadly logic and coherence of the violent revolutionary intellectual.

La Barbarie is always illustrated by the tendency of the human mind to make the complex simple.

The intellectual comes out of its Barbaro While recognizing the complexity of the problems and takes its limits and its ignorance, it improves their tolerance, increases your wisdom and humility. Back

this way to acknowledge that truth is objective - as Xenophanes (-700) - the truth exists, but we can not recognize it, only we approach it.

This achieves open systems of knowledge, learning and a search without end.

We approach this way to open society and the individual to the status of sage "who knows, who knows."

This is the way to the abandonment of moral relativism, fanaticism and pragmatism that permeates today our universities.