Thursday, February 26, 2009

Mein Kampf and Fallacies

Today's blog is about Hitler and his use of fallacies in his book Mein Kampf. Hitler was a man who lived in Germany and who was born in Austria. He grew up to be an evil dictator and started a group called the Nazis who were a murderous clan of people who hated Jew, homosexuals, and gypsies. Hitler used these forms of rhetoric to get the votes of the German people. You see, Hitler was actually elected by the people. Hitler was a great orator, but a horrible person. He promised Germany revenge and a great time after they had been beaten and defeated badly in the first World War. People believed him and elected him due to his use of fallacies and manipulative speeches. A fallacy is a common bias or a faulty belief without any supporting evidence that has been proven true. The first evidence of a fallacy in Hitler's Mein Kampf is when Hitler says, "Each animal mates only with its own species". When he says this he is talking about both species being human. This means that he is saying that there are subspecies of humans which is already a fallacy in and of itself! Humans are one species and it does not matter if you are blond haired blue eyes or dark skinned or anything. Humans are the same species and that is a proven fact. The second use of fallacies is, "For some reason, this must eventually succumb in any struggle against the higher species". This is completely ludicrous. Without any evidence Hitler wants us to believe that one "species" of human is stronger than another. Its complete bullshit. It is using this information and trying to publish it as fact and trying to manipulate people to go on with his plot to kill many innocent lives. 

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