Will Smith On Hitler

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« Reply #30 on: April 05, 2008, 09:11:06 PM »

What a steaming intestinal sculpture !

The question is: So what if, when awakening, Hitler didn't say, "Let me do the most evil thing I can do today."? It's an irrelevancy that cuddles the obvious into a quivering jelly. And in fact, how do we know that Hitler didn't know he was being evil? And even if he didn't think his decisions and actions were "evil," so what? It is ideologies/religiosities such as Smith's that inevitably lead to stupid comments because it requires the redefinition or reconnotation of commonly used words like "good." Smith apparently made this quotation based on a belief that all people start out "basically good." Well IMHO that's crappola! Some people, maybe when they were toddlers, were basically good. But Hitler was NOT good when he was a man. Did HE think he was doing evil? Irrelevant. That is to judged by others ... and I think the consensus opinion there is that Hitler was NOT a good person.

It would like the following: I'm a fan of Pol Pot. I choose to redefine democracy to contain an aspect of fatal authoritarianism as practiced by Pol Pot. And then I say during Pot's reign, "Cambodia is a most democratic nation." You can't redefine words and then expect to be taken seriously. Whether someone is good or not is not something judged by the person being judged. History, other people, even winners decide that ...


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Re: Will Smith On Hitler

« Reply #31 on: April 05, 2008, 09:16:13 PM »

Way to necropost!


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Re: Will Smith On Hitler

« Reply #32 on: April 05, 2008, 11:53:40 PM »

Quote from: gommi on December 25, 2007, 08:39:40 AM

From Hitler's perspective, ultra-nationalism was necessary to revive the power and pride of his country. Unfortunately nationalism was expressed in a very violent way during the Holocaust.

most nationalism leads to ethnocentrism which allows for room for violence


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Re: Will Smith On Hitler

« Reply #33 on: July 18, 2008, 02:13:37 PM »

Hello People

I guess this might be going off topic slightly, but its kind of irrelevant wether Hitler & The Henchmen were consciously evil or not. Five, ten, twenty men cannot a world war or a holocaust make. There were millions of people in several nations complicit in the precipitation of the war and the subsequent holocaust.

The problem is not if Hitler intended evil, its that very few people around him had any concept of good, save those who resisted with their lives. Today's society is no smarter or morally better. We have exchanged military warfare with social and economic warfare, demanding of our governments cheap food, fuel and materials no matter what the cost to other nations or peoples. All so we can throw half of it out for such trivial reasons as "there's a new version out".

There is an absolute goodness, an absolute truth, but society, democratic or otherwise, is not yet ready to learn what that is. So, unfortunately, there will be blood...


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