The Nazis , during World War II , considered genocide to be acceptable , as did the Hutu Interahamwe in the Rwandan genocide . One might point out , though , that the actual perpetrators of those atrocities probably avoided calling their actions genocide , since the objective meaning of any act accurately described by that word is to wrongfully kill a selected group of people , which is an action that at least their victims will understand to be evil . Universalists consider evil independent of culture , and wholly related to acts or intents . Thus , while the ideological leaders of Nazism and the Hutu Interhamwe accepted ( and considered it moral ) to commit genocide , the belief in genocide as '' fundamentally '' or '' universally '' evil holds that those who instigated this genocide are actually evil . Other universalists might argue that although the commission of an evil act is always evil , those who perpetrate may not be wholly evil or wholly good entities . To say that someone who has stolen a candy bar , for instance , becomes wholly evil is a rather untenable position . However , universalists might also argue that a person can choose a decidedly evil or a decidedly good life career , and genocidal dictatorship plainly falls on the side of the former
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
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