[PRePublic]

Being an idealist excuses nothing.
Hitler was an “idealist”. He was also a socialist, an animal rights advocate, a vegetarian, a teatotaller, an antichristian who espoused a preverse, self-serving form of Christianity, a non-smoker, a drug abuser, a hypochondriac, an avid of follower of unconventional medicine, childishly sentimental, a dilettante and a sexual deviant. He was enthralled by a superficial and superstitious naturalism. He was a technical illiterate fascinated by the fruits of technology he never really understood and upon which he made sweeping generalizations and pronouncements, while loathing and envying its creators. If he were alive today and living in Wisconsin, he’d be on the liberal arts faculty of a third rate community college and a Democratic Party activist

My Jewish penpal tells me, that years before Hitler's rise, a Rabbi saw how some Germans are so obsessed with animals on the expense of regard to humans... the Rabbi said [something along the line] 'a culture that prefers animals over humans is bound to perform great atrocities...'

In moderation and proper proportion is the key!

[llandres]

“a culture that prefers animals over humans is bound to perform great atrocities...”

We certainly have large numbers/factions in our own culture who put animals AND the environment ahead of human, and many of them are violent in their warped zealotry.

Scary.