Eichmann Legally Supported Mass Murder

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Eichmann legally supported mass murder, so legally, the court can hang him. This criticism is a fair punishment according to Arendt. To understand the criticism and arguments against Arendt’s thesis that Eichmann was the right totalitarian subject as he reacted in a certain way; Eichmann could have been anyone, once you have been dehumanized a person will act in certain ways.
The real criminal was the whole totalitarianism system. It was not to provide an explanation for the way the individuality of everyone but, it was to explain how the system was attacked on how we think of this humanity. To talk about human freedom, there is this distinction between the liberal ideas and communitarian ideas. The privileged of moral politics or the liberal

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