According to this artricle, it does. It opens by saying that positing an influence from Darwin to Hitler frees Hitler of fault.
Then again, emotional impact always did make better eliminationist propaganda than reason, as you-know-who could attest.
I'm superman by gettingaway with murder. And when get caught, I defend myself by blaming Nietzsche. After all, he influenced me. Even if I really was influenced by Nietzsche, does that let me off the hook?
According to this artricle, it does. It opens by saying that positing an influence from Darwin to Hitler frees Hitler of fault.
Then again, emotional impact always did make better eliminationist propaganda than reason, as you-know-who could attest.
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where this comes full circle is that the social darwinism/eugenics thinking of the right of the early 20th Century has migrated to the left. Designer babies for heteros and invitro for homos is the order of the day and for the future -- cloning.