Sort of like why traffic backs up on the highway, even though an accident doesn't block any of the lanes - you can't help yourself but to stare in wonderment and amazement. In this case, at <you've received enough insults in this thread.>Admit it, my threads get more traffic than average.
I don't understand those that suggest tearing down a perfectly good building.
Hell, using your logic, you'd want the White House torn down and a new building erected, because you don't like Obama.
Thank you for the answer.
Yes, your moral compass should point to the universal truth to do no harm.
It is a simple concept, an idea that humanity is slowly moving towards, and that truth is to do no harm.
The compass is frozen because universal truths do not change.
Sure you understand it. Tearing the building down is an act against the memory of the nazis.
Same reason homes of serial killers are torn down, schools are demolished after a shooting. It is not the building, but the memory associated with the building.
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Actually conservatism is pretty simple: Let's all play by the same rules, earn our keep, and be nice. Liberalism - classical liberalism - is much the same, but more willing to accept change (of which we conservatives are suspicious) to promote individual liberty whereas conservatives like more structure and group behavior.Nazism arose as Germany was in a deep depression. It did not arise out of a high-minded attempt to regulate the economy, it was simply pitting rich against poor for political gain. The poor were unhappy with their circumstances and the Nazis gave them a scapegoat: The rich. That scapegoat later became the Jews, homosexuals, the institutionalized, and the Gypsies.
This is conservatism.
Liberalism is something else. You can't go from Occupy Wall Street's: "Let's regulate the banking industry to remove some of the predatory practices that the economic niche allows and have been opportunistically exploited," to, "Let's kill the blacks for the advancement of the white race."
Actually conservatism is pretty simple: Let's all play by the same rules, earn our keep, and be nice. Liberalism - classical liberalism - is much the same, but more willing to accept change (of which we conservatives are suspicious) to promote individual liberty whereas conservatives like more structure and group behavior.
The closest thing we have today to National Socialism is the progressive movement. The Nazis said "you are poor because evil Jews are conspiring to keep you poor"; the American Progressive says "you are poor because evilJewsrich people (many of whom by pure coincidence are Jewish) are conspiring to keep you poor".
So your so-called "moral" compass really begins with, "How does this affect Texashiker's pocketbook?" Only if it does not affect your pocketbook in the least do you then move on to "Do no harm" (where "harm" is defined as whatever contradicts your distorted ideological views). That means you're not only a hypocrite, you're a greedy hypocrite. How noble.We did not create the train wreck in central and south america, but we are supposed to pay for it?
Except if you disagree with the law, then you can ignore them/pretend they don't exist. Like immigration laws.To liberals, as long as it is legal anything goes.
:biggrin:Sort of like why traffic backs up on the highway, even though an accident doesn't block any of the lanes - you can't help yourself but to stare in wonderment and amazement. In this case, at <you've received enough insults in this thread.>
To answer your question, the house had nothing to do with the Holocaust. Jews weren't killed there. He had a lot of affairs there until Hitler told him to knock it off; that's about its only "notoriety." Looks like a great lake for fishing, and looks very peaceful by that lake. If it was in my price range, and was in the area I wanted to live, (neither of which is remotely true) I'd jump at the chance to purchase it. Hell, for almost 50 years after Goebbel, it was being used as a school.
I can't wait for your next installment on this, 5 years from now: "the house and lake was purchased by a vacation company. Would you go fishing in that lake, knowing that 75 years ago, the lake was owned by a Nazi? You might catch something from eating the fish." Hell, using your logic, you'd want the White House torn down and a new building erected, because you don't like Obama.
WARNING: Rhetorical question alert!
What memories are associated with this building?
Actually conservatism is pretty simple: Let's all play by the same rules, earn our keep, and be nice. Liberalism - classical liberalism - is much the same, but more willing to accept change (of which we conservatives are suspicious) to promote individual liberty whereas conservatives like more structure and group behavior.
The closest thing we have today to National Socialism is the progressive movement. The Nazis said "you are poor because evil Jews are conspiring to keep you poor"; the American Progressives say "you are poor because evilJewsrich people (many of whom by pure coincidence are Jewish) are conspiring to keep you poor". The Nazis promised to take things from others and give them to you; the American Progressives promise to take things from others and give them to you.
Perhaps you should take this as an opportunity to once again explain to all us poor souls how the National Socialists were not actually socialists at all.When I call you delusional or insane it's because of posts like this.
Perhaps you should take this as an opportunity to once again explain to all us poor souls how the National Socialists were not actually socialists at all.
Sorry, the National Socialist German Workers Party.
The closest thing we have today to National Socialism is the progressive movement. The Nazis said "you are poor because evil Jews are conspiring to keep you poor"; the American Progressives say "you are poor because evilJewsrich people (many of whom by pure coincidence are Jewish) are conspiring to keep you poor". The Nazis promised to take things from others and give them to you; the American Progressives promise to take things from others and give them to you.
Perhaps you should take this as an opportunity to once again explain to all us poor souls how the National Socialists were not actually socialists at all.
Sorry, the National Socialist German Workers Party.
Because it was some Progressive politician who recently proposed that poor women be forcibly sterilized?Actually conservatism is pretty simple: Let's all play by the same rules, earn our keep, and be nice. Liberalism - classical liberalism - is much the same, but more willing to accept change (of which we conservatives are suspicious) to promote individual liberty whereas conservatives like more structure and group behavior.
The closest thing we have today to National Socialism is the progressive movement. The Nazis said "you are poor because evil Jews are conspiring to keep you poor"; the American Progressives say "you are poor because evilJewsrich people (many of whom by pure coincidence are Jewish) are conspiring to keep you poor". The Nazis promised to take things from others and give them to you; the American Progressives promise to take things from others and give them to you.
Sorry, it is the progressive movement that is categorizing into ingroups and outgroups. Just look at our recent thread history where expecting poor people to abide by the same traffic laws as everyone else is racist.Progressivism isn't a demonization of the rich, moron, it is an acknowledgement that power differentials exist, are exploited, that the State's monopoly on violence enforces them, and that it's better to tweak the government's use of power so as not to have it dogmatically backing oppression than to let things get out of hand to where the People take matters into their own.
You are a conservative so you don't understand anything other than categorizing into ingroups and outgroups as the Nazis did. That doesn't mean that other ways don't exist. There's a reason not everyone is a conservative.
Ummm . . . Okay?The Republican Democrat party in Africa is Socialist
Not actually poor women - poor women who receive welfare benefits and doff off even more children they can't feed. But I take your point, there is fascism (well, fascism light anyway) on both sides of the political spectrum.Because it was some Progressive politician who recently proposed that poor women be forcibly sterilized?
Let me clue you in on something. In the US, the neo Nazis vote tea party.
Sure you understand it. Tearing the building down is an act against the memory of the nazis.
Same reason homes of serial killers are torn down, schools are demolished after a shooting. It is not the building, but the memory associated with the building.
That somehow destroying an inanimate object will allow us to feel better about ourselves.
Chances are in 200 years very few people are going to care about what happened in that house. Much like how the memories of the tyrant kings and conquerors has fallen to the wayside.
Ask a high school kid who caligula was. Chances are the kid will say "who?"
1,500 years from now same response when someone ask who hitler or joseph goebbels was.
Sorry, it is the progressive movement that is categorizing into ingroups and outgroups.
Perhaps you should take this as an opportunity to once again explain to all us poor souls how the National Socialists were not actually socialists at all.
Sorry, the National Socialist German Workers Party.
Ummm . . . Okay?
Actually conservatism is pretty simple: Let's all play by the same rules, earn our keep, and be nice. Liberalism - classical liberalism - is much the same, but more willing to accept change (of which we conservatives are suspicious) to promote individual liberty whereas conservatives like more structure and group behavior.
The closest thing we have today to National Socialism is the progressive movement. The Nazis said "you are poor because evil Jews are conspiring to keep you poor"; the American Progressives say "you are poor because evilJewsrich people (many of whom by pure coincidence are Jewish) are conspiring to keep you poor". The Nazis promised to take things from others and give them to you; the American Progressives promise to take things from others and give them to you.