„Odium numquam bonum est” Spinoza 

 

     Some time ago, while visiting my hometown in Poland, I went to a Jewish cemetery. There is a mass grave of 200 Jews murdered by Germans during World War II...

     Suddenly the sunlight filtering through the treetops began to draw human faces on one of the graves... I fell into thought...We all know Dostoyevsky's statement that if God doesn't exist, then everything is permitted. The modern version, popularized by Lacan and Žižek, holds that if God doesn't exist, then everything is forbidden... I looked at the faces reflected in the graves and thought: if God truly doesn't exist, is there a greater cruelty than depriving another human being of life; that is... everything?

     The geopolitical storm characterizing our times gives this question universal appeal. This means that there is no chosen nation with  a license to kill...