(September 1, 2021 at 6:48 pm)WinterHold Wrote:(September 1, 2021 at 10:29 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: That wasn’t what I asked you, you question-dodging troglodyte. I’ll try again, and we’ll take it in small steps, so we don’t overtax your few working brain cells.
1. You claimed that that which is pragmatic is decent and wise.
2. Hitler’s goal was to destroy ‘European Jewry’.
3. To accomplish #2, the Nazi regime instituted a pragmatic programme of mass murder.
4. Do you think this genocide was decent and wise?
Boru
You're the one calling "Hitler" pragmatic, and treating the ethnic cleansing of Jews and gypsies as a "pragmatic deed", and I quote here where you did that:
https://atheistforums.org/thread-63256-p...pid2059043
Quote:BrianSoddingBoru4 said:
As an extreme example, the Nazi death camps of WWII were a pragmatic application of Hitler’s belief that Europe should be free of Jews, homosexuals, dissidents, Gypsies and others, that their possessions (property, money, teeth, skin, hair, bones) should be taken from them and used to help support the Nazi war effort.
You're the one calling "mass murder a "pragmatic solution" !
I know what I said. Under the definition you provided, yes, it was pragmatic. What I want to know is if you think it was 'decent and wise'.
Try to think of it like this: Per your definition, pragmatism may be thought of as the plan most likely to lead to the achievement of a particular goal. I'm trying to get you to understand that if the goal is an horrific one, pragmatism cannot be either decent or wise.
Kindly stop dodging the question.
Boru
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