Sunday, February 22, 2009

Hitler's common fallicies

"Thus men without exception wander in the garden of nature; they imagine that they know practically everything and yet with few exceptions pass blindly by one of the most patent principles of Nature's rule: the inner segregation of the species of all living beings on this earth. Even the most superficial observation shows that Nature's restricted form of propagation and increase is an almost rigid basic law of all the innumerable forms of expression of her vital urge. Every animal mates only with a member of the same species. The titmouse seeks the titmouse, the finch the finch, the stork the stork, the field mouse the filed mouse, the dormouse the dormouse, the wolf the she-wolf, etc." -Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler  

This passage by Adolf hitler is an example of a false analogy which is when an analogy is descriptive but does not offer proof of a connection between the two things being compared. The comparison hitler makes is a false analogy because he is trying to use nature as the reason for his hatred and treatment of Jews by comparing humans to species of animals. This comparison is not valid because unlike with animals there is no sub-species of humans, in fact humans themselves are a sub-species of animals. The comparison Hitler was trying to make was by turing race and religion into a species so that he could basically say that a stork would not mate with a wolf therefore non-Jews should not mate with Jews, and at first glance you may follow Hitlers train of thought and think he rightfully proved his point and behavior through nature but if you read a little closer you will realize that the analogy is false and makes no sense .

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