Ha, some people in my school believe the 'I was only following orders' excuse should have been enough. Talk about moral relativism.

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"All I know, is that I know nothing." - Socrates

"Plead your case."

"Well, uh, see; I never really -"

"Haannng this mu'fucka. NEEEEEEXXXT!!! We got a long day ahead peeps! keep 'um coming!"

Post edited at 9:32 pm on Aug. 24, 2008 by The Artful Dodger

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Nuremburg trials? What the fuck is that? Hangin' Nazis. I call it Karma. Wurd to motha. Might as well have a nice time with it. That was some straight up G-shit;

"Plead your case."

"Well, uh, see; I never really -"

"Haannng this mu'fucka. NEEEEEEXXXT!!! We got a long day ahead peeps! keep 'um coming!"

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"Plead your case"

"Well, my family is part Jewish. If I didn't -"

"HaHaHaHA!!!! This fool actually thinks I give a SHIT!!!! Hang'IM! neeexxxxt!"

gangsta. shit. justice...mmmmmmm

Post edited at 9:47 pm on Aug. 24, 2008 by The Artful Dodger

The questions should be "how did so many people get sucked into such a destructive campaign?" and "what can we do to prevent things like that from happening again, without just using the media to shock people into hating hitler and all things related?" Ignorance is a dangerous thing, even when employed with good intentions in mind, you never know when it might flip on you. Or atleast become really irritating.

Post edited at 9:55 pm on Aug. 24, 2008 by The Artful Dodger

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Nazis did some evil shit. But on the real, I think the biggest mistake the world made in response to their actions was dehumanizing them in their minds. Like, how does that make you any better. Nazis are people just like you are.

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Agreed x100. Often when asked why the Nazis did what they did, people will simply reply "they're evil... duh!" Such views completely ignore the reality of it all - how Nazi policies made complete sense given what they believed, how what they believed wasn't anything beyond comprehension, and what the Nazis would have looked like to a contemporary of the time.   This is dangerous for it makes people naive, and setting them up to fall for yet another "Nazi regime." "Good" and "evil" are horrible social constructs which overly simplifies a situation, depending on the way an individual perceives it. Such "evil" is not out of the realm of possibilities today, and nor will it look "evil" in the way we think of it.

Moreover, designating the Nazis as evil allows one to cast off whoever sympathizes with the Nazis and / or is critical of just how evil they really were as "evil" as well. This is convenient, for it allows such things that resulted from things such as the holocaust (Israel in particular is believed to be legitimized by the holocaust, but also the Nuremberg Trials) to go unquestioned, and if questioned, that person is easily discredited.

Post edited at 12:05 am on Aug. 25, 2008 by Bud2400

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I question the holocaust.

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Not surprised

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Quote: from kidd rune at 2:43 am on Aug. 25, 2008

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I question the holocaust.

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Not surprised

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Quote: from The Artful Dodger at 9:54 pm on Aug. 24, 2008

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Nazis did some evil shit. But on the real, I think the biggest mistake the world made in response to their actions was dehumanizing them in their minds. Like, how does that make you any better. Nazis are people just like you are.

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Agreed x100.  Often when asked why the Nazis did what they did, people will simply reply "they're evil... duh!"  Such views completely ignore the reality of it all - how Nazi policies made complete sense given what they believed, how what they believed wasn't anything beyond comprehension, and what the Nazis would have looked like to a contemporary of the time. This is dangerous for it makes people naive, and setting them up to fall for yet another "Nazi regime."  "Good" and "evil" are horrible social constructs which overly simplifies a situation, depending on the way an individual perceives it.  Such "evil" is not out of the realm of possibilities today, and nor will it look "evil" in the way we think of it.

Moreover, designating the Nazis as evil allows one to cast off whoever sympathizes with the Nazis and / or is critical of just how evil they really were as "evil" as well.  This is convenient, for it allows such things that resulted from things such as the holocaust (Israel in particular is believed to be legitimized by the holocaust, but also the Nuremberg Trials) to go unquestioned, and if questioned, that person is easily discredited.

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Yeah, I mean, as hilarious as the Nuremberg trials go in my head (especially with katt Williams as the judge) there were without doubt some SERIOUS and numerous miscarriages of justice.