Thursday, February 26, 2009

Fallacies in Adolf Hitler

Haven't posted a while, so i'll get down to business.

I'll start with Adolf Hitler and how his Mein Kempf is full of fallacies. Shall we begin?

Reading through Chapter 11, one example that particularly stuck to me was:

" Every animal mates only with a member of the same species. The titmouse seeks the titmouse, the finch the finch, the stork the stork, the field mouse the field mouse, the dormouse the dormouse, the wolf the she-wolf, etc. Only unusual circumstances can change this, primarily the compulsion of captivity or any other cause that makes it impossible to mate within the same species."

whoo, quite the mouthful eh? Hitler here is trying to show that races shouldn't mix together since it is pretty much against Nature. Since species of animals don't mate with each other, different races shouldn't! He's also trying to justify the super race that he's so fanatical about. However, here is where it goes all wrong...

Firstly, he is making the fallacy of false analogy. He's trying to compare species of animals to races of human beings. lolwut? hmm, now where does that fail? (/sarcasm)

Are races = species?
I think NOT!
Are there subspecies of humans? Is an asian man a different species than a caucasian woman? at the end of the day, we're all homosapiens. Yet here, Hitler makes a descriptive analogy, but offers no proof of a connection between the two. hmmm, very interesting.
Hitler's writing is just full of fallacies that appear here and there. He calls it justification and truth. I call it FAIL.

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