why is it that any time anybody makes a comment like i did that somebody has to apply it to their own particular life? i'm so sick and tired of thin-skinned namby pambies. my in-laws are jews who went through the mess in WW2 first hand. i am all too aware of what went on.
as for hitler, he had a great idea that had no chance of success, and was grossly misapplied. he was by no means the first though. he is just the one we focus on. we certainly look differently at the english, who did exactly the same thing, but in the name of christ. we look pretty differently at the romans too. the catholic church is responsible for more death and destruction than hitler by a factor of more than 10. why aren't we offended by their actions? history is written by the winner. hitler also did some miraculous things. he took a country from post war bankruptcy and in 18 years nearly dominated the world. were it not for the atrocities, he would be represented very differently in history. i'm not defending hitler, but i find it outrageous that anyone is offended by comments made that only they draw a connection to.
do i think we should weed out bad genes? absolutely. do i think we can do that without creating a bigger problem than we already have? absolutely not. who is to decide what is to be kept and what is to be cut? what is the butterfly effect of such a decision? no way are we, as a society, wise enough to make those kinds of decisions, and they are too big to be in any one person's hands. that doesn't change the fact that i wish we could do something about stupid. but again, if we get rid of stupid, who would watch WWF?
so, to anybody who finds racist or politically incorrect comments offensive, i say "toughen up and get over it". life is a bitch. i'm a short, overweight, bald, middle-aged, elitist snob mick/dumb swede, but i'm not going to get offended when somebody makes a comment about it, or finds fault with any of those things. it is what it is. i'm in charge of what i think, not somebody else. only i can decide if i want to be offended by something, and i am intelligent enough to decide not to be offended by anything, and it is absolutely a choice. we choose to wallow in self pity and complain for our lot in life, or to move on past whatever it is. i choose to forget all behind me as the past and irrelevant, and look only forward. they say that those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it. well, people don't change, so it's going to happen whether we look back or not. i find it all a huge waste of time to even think about the past.
now, if we could weed out the genes for greed and power, we might actually have something, but then would we lose the drive for progress?
you have to take the good with the bad. hitler and ghandi came out of the same genetic blender.
