It is sad that truth is so often sacrificed in the quest for celebrity gossip. The latest example is Will Smith’s comment about Hitler. Smith is quoted as saying:

“Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘Let me do
the most evil thing I can do today,'” said Will. “I think he woke up in
the morning and, using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do
what he thought was ‘good.'”

From this many celebrity gossip reporters misquoted Smith and reported that Smith thought Hitler was a good person. Dennis Prager correctly notes here that his comment in context is quite legitimate. 

Most of history’s great evils were
committed by people who somehow convinced themselves that the evil they
did was really good. This is hardly a new problem. As the Prophet Hosea
said 2,700 years ago, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,
who put darkness for light and light for darkness” (Hosea 4:6).

Some years ago, I made a video on goodness (“For Goodness
Sake”) with the director David Zucker in which I said almost the same
thing word for word, that few people who do evil wake up in the morning
saying, “Ah, another day to do evil.”

In his play “Incident at Vichy,” playwright Arthur Miller
depicts a Jewish doctor in Nazi Occupied France who seeks a corrupt
Nazi to bribe in order to escape Hitler’s genocide of the Jews. The
Jewish doctor knows that if he finds an idealistic Nazi, he is doomed.
Miller’s point was that there were bestial Nazis who believed that what
they were doing was good.