pspkiller626 wrote...
Let us ask the question: Why did Hitler kill Jews in the first place?
There are MANY theories to that question, but know this; Jews did not offend him personally. There are theories that point out that maybe Hitler was affiliated with the wrong sort of Jews yes, but theories are theories. Until there is concrete evidence that the Holocaust was sparked by personal hatred, I will believe that his hatred of the Jews was inspired by the state of Germany itself back then. Jews had jobs while Germans suffered, and he grew up being taught that Germans were the superior race of people. How would you feel if 'vermin' stood higher than you?
He gave hope and a chance of revival to the German people. In the end, he was from the people, for the people and by the people that he instigated the Holocaust. He was misguided yes, but wasn't evil.
Exactly who is evil in this world is not something that people can judge really. Things can really change once you shift perspectives and in this case, he was a hero to the German people back then while he was probably the devil incarnate to the rest of the world.
What defines evil? How do you judge evil? You could look at something from so many different perspectives that judgement becomes clouded and only one side out of the two sides can achieve victory. That side is Justice. The losers are forever doomed to be branded evil. If both sides achieved victory there wouldn't be Justice or Evil at all. One side has to be sacrificed for the other to come out on top. Now, murdering people is indeed a crime and it is unforgivable, but then, why is the judge and the offender guilty of the same crime?
Hitler killed Jews. He was branded as a criminal. But then, what of the US dumping two Nukes on Japan? The Japanese were branded as evil and that Nukes were the only way to stop them. But still, the bombs killed civilians and destroyed cities. How is that not evil?
I find it amazing that the US talks about justice when its crimes are immeasurable.
Repped you back up for this balanced post. However, Hitler was definitely not for the people. He was selfish to the very end. At the end of the war, he just said the German people let him down and let the people deal with the Allies themselves. Also, Hitler did not make the German economy "bounce" back from the Great Depression. The way he got rid of unemployment was pretty much, in crude terms, "get people to join the army and get more people to produce war supplies and work on public projects". This kind of economic development is unsustainable. Eventually he would have ran out of funds. Also, during the Great Depression, both Germans and German Jews were part of the employed and unemployed. German Jews did not necessarily have more jobs than the Germans.
I find it amazing that the US talks about justice when its crimes are immeasurable.
This, however, does not change the fact that Hitler's "crimes are immeasurable." The problem here is that, the current Western morality is telling us that killing for racial reasons are wrong.
I believe in these morals myself. So I'd think Hitler was evil and this kind of action can never be tolerated. And a moral relativist would say, "however, if the society thinks killing for racial reasons is right, then it would be right. It is all relative, about how you are brought up, so there are no 'true' or 'base' moral so it can be tolerated". (this is similar to the "see? victors are the ones with justice because they won, but if the losers won they would be justice, so you need to tolerate this kind of behaviour) But if you think about it, what if, say, a society called the LOLS were forcing people to their morals (eg, killing people for racial reasons is okay.) and a moral relativist would say to the LOLS that they cannot do that, because they have no right to force other people to their own morals. But then they can say, in our society, forcing other people to our own morals is okay! See? There is an inconsistency. If the moral relativist then say, everyone can have their own morals and you cannot force other people into it. Then they themselves are forcing this "moral" idea onto the LOLS people. So, since moral relativism is inconsistent with this universal tolerance... then there is not such thing called moral relativism. There must be some sort of basis here. And I'll take my Western morals. So how can Hitler be anything but evil in this case?