Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Hitler's terrible arguments started WHAT?!?!?

Unfortunately, Adolf Hitler was quite serious when writing his "Mein Kempf". The issue (or issues) with that are that he could not stop with the fallacies. In almost every paragraph he creates a history, a world, without any true argument. Although the fallacies are far-fetched to begin with, even if taken as true, they are as truthfully false as he supports them. In case you didn't quite pick up on that, his defense is weak (if there at all). Just so I don't make the same mistake, I happen to have an example; I have something to actually support my argument that Hitler made it all up with no defense. In Chapter 11, he says: 
"Here, of course, we encounter the objection of the modern pacifist, as truly Jewish in its effrontery as it is stupid! 'Man's role is to overcome nature!' " 
Setting aside the overt racism (yes, I do realize that's the point but bear with me) Hitler simply states something without any foundation and without any evidence. This quote is an example of a hasty generalization in that it is a conclusion based on insufficient evidence that is dripping with prejudice. This particular excerpt is subtle (to say the most) by comparison to his countless other fallacies. Adolf Hitler justified the torture and slaughter of a people (a race he created) with, if you will, no justification. This is why I am grateful for being taught philosophy, learning to detect fallacies. Future generations need to be prepared to understand that people like Hitler are not only full of it, but have no real argument. 

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