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« on: January 29, 2013, 12:29:48 PM »

While I wish they could have found a more tasteful way to say it, it is pointing out significant flaw of many on the left, their belief that everything repugnant that anyone does happens because they don't bother to think and reason it through, so if we just followed logic, everything would be all right. Unfortunately, the world does not work in such a rosy way.  The Nazis were quite convinced that what they were doing was the sensible thing to do.  Doesn't make them any less evil.  Indeed, I would say it made them more evil.
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« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2013, 01:40:28 PM »

While I wish they could have found a more tasteful way to say it, it is pointing out significant flaw of many on the left, their belief that everything repugnant that anyone does happens because they don't bother to think and reason it through, so if we just followed logic, everything would be all right. Unfortunately, the world does not work in such a rosy way.  The Nazis were quite convinced that what they were doing was the sensible thing to do.  Doesn't make them any less evil.  Indeed, I would say it made them more evil.

That doesn't have anything to do with whether it is senseless or not, to put it very mildly.

Actually it does.  Because you have a ethos that rejects that some ethnic groups are inferior to others. it doesn't make sense for you, but with different ethical axioms, such as those held by the Nazis, genocide can make perfect sense.
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« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2013, 05:46:25 PM »

"No Jew can be a member of the (German) race" is a sensible position?

Is it any less sensible than Obama, the child of a white mother and a black father, being considered black?  The whole issue of race can be considered quite silly.
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