| | Would the opinions of critics matter? For that matter, what adherent to any system of thought or belief encourages disregard of concepts they know to be true? That's the point of a system, to discover, define, and transmit truth according to certain sources. No system I know of maintains a list of "truths we don't believe", I'm not even sure that any serious system could even imply such truths existed. Maybe subjectivism in all of it's permutations. The characterization of evil as "sad" (as opposed to dangerous) leads me to believe that an endorsement of subjectivism is exactly what the speaker is doing. Evil is the lack of belief in truths that aren't compatible with what one believes? Iranian leaders aren't evil because they support murder and the vicious subjugation of their own charges, but because they can't see that we're right, too?
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The sadness of evil men is that they believe no truth that does not paint the world in their colours.
