Re: Politics-Ethics Question
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These babies serve no purpose. [ QUOTE ]
The exact argument used by Hitler to justify his program of euthanasia. Welcome back!
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That's an emotional argument.
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Wrong. It's not even an argument. It's just pointing out that you take a course of reasoning that was chosen also by those who supported the euthanasia in the Third Reich.
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Since nearly everyone associates Hitler with evil they associate everything about him with evil. Not everything he came up with was a bad idea.
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Such as? Though this is OT, I'd be genuinely interested...
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Euthanizing those who can do nothing but detract from society would be a good thing for society as a whole.
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... and presupposes that the well being of society is the highest value there is (or at least higher than the well-being of any singluar human being). Singular well-being has to step back if the well-being of society is in danger. Human beings in themselves have no value, rather, their value is measured inasfar as they can contribute to society.
Yep, that's one way to look at the world. But it has such a [censored] of philosophical implications of which you apparently have only a very dim idea that evey sane person rather not get involved.
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Nothing in this world has a right to life. In this world the weak die off, why should these babies be any different?
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Because they're of our own kind?
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