Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Adolf Hitler's Fallacies.

In Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler makes the justification that the German's are superior. If you really read with attention then you can see how ridiculous these arguments and claims are. After i read this it was hard to believe that Hitler was once one of the most powerful man in the world and wiped out millions of Jews. I really wonder if these people were so damned stupid to believe all this crap that Hitler fed them. Seriously this chapter that i read was pretty funny because the fallacies that he said were stupid.

With his opening statement he says "THERE are some truths which are so obvious that for this very reason they are not seen or at least not recognized by ordinary people" this is an Ad Hominem because he is attacking that the people that are average cannot see the real truth. And with this Hitler is trying to make the people feel superior because they can actually see the truth and the people that cannot grasp this truth is inferior than them.

Another part of this chapter Hitler starts talking about nature and he goes on and on really its quite repetitive that how a fox mates with a fox and a mouse with a mouse and a cat with a cat. And he says that they do not go around and mate with other species that are superior with them. And then this analogy is supposed do with humans. Since in nature only species mate with themselves and not other species the humans aren't supposed to mate with someone who is less superior than them. This is a false analogy. First of all humans are just one species and the animals can only mate with animals within their own species. Race is not a specie but apparently Hitler thinks so because he says that mating with the lesser race will make them less powerful but that is stupid because one is just reproducing and the fact that ideas and inventions come from different cultures put together does not make it inferior. It actually helps intermingling with other races if one just stayed with their own race there would really be no type of progress. And of course a fox can't mate with a goose not because the goose is less inferior its just because they can't reproduce and everything for them is about surviving.

And then Hitler goes saying that there is historical proof that mating with less race can be bad for the superior race. Adolf used Faulty Use of Authority. He claims that there are historical events that prove that if a dominant race mates with a lesser race then makes them weak. The facts that he uses are not even facts he just says that these people are superior and that the other people are inferior. He never mentions anything tragic happening because of this intermingling. In nicer terms Hitler was an ass you just said things without any proof or facts.

1 comment:

  1. Make more of your posts like this one. The other two are a bit low on substance. 10/12 for Week 1.

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