Forgive my fulfilling of Godwin’s Law, but if a Nazi leader repeatedly told Hitler “Don’t kill the Jews because struggling against them in the economic marketplace will make Germans stronger” would you consider this leader a “good guy”?
And the equivalent position, actually, would be “Do not kill all the Jews at once, keep on killing them for a long time because the struggle will keep the Germans morally pure”.
Forgive my fulfilling of Godwin’s Law, but if a Nazi leader repeatedly told Hitler “Don’t kill the Jews because struggling against them in the economic marketplace will make Germans stronger” would you consider this leader a “good guy”?
No, I would not.
And the equivalent position, actually, would be “Do not kill all the Jews at once, keep on killing them for a long time because the struggle will keep the Germans morally pure”.
The intent matters.