BackFire
Blood. It's nature's lube
Originally posted by Evil Dead
perhaps, perhaps not. While I agree Hitler is responsible for every single death that occurred in a concentration camp....I have never seen evidence that it was out of "blind, pure hatred". His beliefs were that his German race was being dilluted by Jews......it was not out of hate that he wanted them gone, it was to keep Jewish blood from further mingling with Aryan. Evidence (in the form of official documentation) was recovered after the war re-inforcing this........as the Nazis had tried to rid Germany from Jews for 2 years before resorting to the camps. That is why it was called the "final" solution.what he did was wrong in my point of view.......but it's not my place to condemn him. He ruled his country and made decisions that resulted in the deaths of 3 million jews. How many slaves does that make George Washington responsible for killing when he was in power of the US. Are we to go back and kill Washington, Jefferson, Adams, etc. when they were infants too? Do Jewish lives mean more than Black lives? ofcourse not. They were doing what they thought best for their country at the time.......just as Hitler was. We don't agree with what he thought best......but he had the right to make such decisions. Hell....we ourselves rounded up Japanese Americans and put into camps during WWII. Some did indeed die in those camps...........it wasn't 3 million but a life is a life.......are we to go back and kill Roosevelt when he was a child? He was doing what he thought best for his country........
It's not my place to condemn people for the decisions they made when there is no possible way I can relate to any of the variables that went into their decision making. I couldn't kill George Washington as a boy.....I couldn't kill Thomas Jefferson as a boy.......I couldn't kill Adolf Hitler as a boy........I couldn't go back and kill any world leader as a child based soley on the amount of deaths that occurred as a result of their decisions as adults.
The evidence that he hated them is in the fact that he thought that murdering them was a lesser evil than allowing their blood to marry with the aryans. He had these feelings quite simply because of prejudice and hatred. He hated them so that he saw them as a lesser lifeform, subhuman, even. This semantical stuff of "well, he didn't REALLY hate them, he just wanted them dead so they wouldn't soil genes" is incredibly weak, IMO. I think it's clear to any reasonable person that hatred was the main basis for his actions against the jews, no matter how it may have been disguised. Come on, man "No, I don't hate them, *kills, murders, tortures jews* I just don't want them merging with my people" You really buy that?.
As far as the second paragraph, intent is the important factor there. All of the above mentioned made terrible decisions and yes, a life is a life, but Washington didn't go out with the intent to murder every single black person just because he didn't like them. Roosevelt wasn't attempting to slaughter every asian person he saw as if they were a scourge set on the planet, their intentions were all much different from Hitlers. They made bad decisions that caused some death in the process, though it wasn't their intention. Murder was Hitler's intention, he intended to kill jews - fact.