>>If you can find the on-off switch to "natural law" that permits masses of people to do things that conflict with all of their religious and moral histories, you will make a real contribution.<<
Excellent point. The Germans were, and are, a very ethical, moral, religious culture. The greatest composers were Germans ~ Bach and Beethoven. Many of the greatest scientists were German ~ Leibnitz, Erlich, Werner von Braun. Some of the greatest painters were German ~ Albrecht Durer. Some of the greatest philosophers were German ~ Nietzche, Kant. German engineering is legendary ~ Nicholas Otto, Rudolph Diesel. In many ways, Germany is one of the finest flowers of Western civilization. So how to explain? It is the very efficiency and scientific inventiveness that made the enormity of the Final Solution possible, in fact.
We can say about the Russians, oh, the Russians never have amounted to much. And about the Serbians and Bosnians, they've been killing each other for hundreds of years. But the Germans, that gives us pause. And what about the Japanese? |
