(December 28, 2009 at 6:30 am)tackattack Wrote: What does it matter what his reasons were or his religion? He was wrong.
What does it matter wether I am pink or blue? Some of us are colorblind.
Wait... what? 'Rightness' and 'wrongness' are entirely subjective. What is interesting about Hitler and the Nazi 'movement?'... is that although we believe they were 'dead wrong': they believed that they were 'quite right'. It is interesting to understand just why/how the Nazis came to their belief differently than we come to our disbelief.
The Nazi's (and Hitlers) beliefs are a point of interest so far as history, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and more... that's why it matters what his reasons were and his religion was. He was wrong (as far as we are concerned)... but that does not mean he had no impact and is not an interesting thing to study/discuss.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day