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To: reasonisfaith
The Nazis, in their foolish hatred, viewed the Jews as inferior to the "German race."

That's why they rejected Social Darwinism -- it would have forced the exact opposite conclusion. (According to Nazi propaganda, Jews ran everything behind the scenes. If so, Social Darwinist analysis says that they're superior to the chumps who let them do so.)

224 posted on 05/02/2008 12:45:41 PM PDT by steve-b (The "intelligent design" hoax is not merely anti-science; it is anti-civilization. --John Derbyshire)
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To: steve-b

Let’s make things easier by clarifying premises. You’re assuming Nazi thinking was strictly rational—that is, organized according to strict logic. It was not.

Nazi ideology was at its core built on a selfish desire for power, and the result of this is that their strategic patterns were conquest-friendly but not necessarily logic-friendly. Hypocrisy didn’t matter to them.

Just like Democrats today who are blatantly hypocritical about the removal of Saddam from power, which they supported up until 2003 but for political reasons have opposed since then.

Documented history, including Hitler’s own words (”No more than Nature desires the mating of weaker with stronger individuals, even less does she desire the blending of a higher with a lower race, since, if she did, her whole work of higher breeding, over perhaps hundreds of thousands of years, might be ruined with one blow.”) clearly shows Nazis drew heavily from Darwinism in forming their ideology.

Read post #179 again, please.


237 posted on 05/03/2008 6:30:53 AM PDT by reasonisfaith (Of foolishness and evil intent only one can take the lead, and socialists have no other choices.)
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