Re: logic makes a comeback

Russell Stewart (diamond@rt66.com)
Mon, 16 Jun 1997 23:44:31 -0600

At 10:38 AM 6/13/97 -0400, you wrote:
>At 5:31 PM -0400 6/12/97, Pim van Meurs wrote:
>>I guess this makes nazism ok since the errors were corrected ?
>
>I don't _think_ so. Does anyone else?
>
>Hitler was a cynical opportunist. I doubt he held any religious views at
>all. He used Christians, and perhaps he used atheists too. He was a
>master of motivation by repetition and deceit (advertising texts today
>still teach some of his motivational principles -- a point of embarrassment
>to some advertising professors). It's not surprising that he was able to
>deceive Christians for a time. And by the time many people realized how
>evil he was, he had the coercive power of the state at his command. And of
>course that helped him prolong his reign. But Jim's point -- which Pim
>missed -- was that eventually Christians _did_ deal with nazism. If we are
>to evaluate moral systems by their ability to _prevent_ evil from ever
>occurring, then all moral systems fail.

Which is exactly what I was trying to point out to Jim.

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