Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Hilter and His Common Fallacies

We already knew that Adolf Hitler was a bad and evil person but his book also helps prove how wrong his ideas and way of thinking were. in Chapter 11 of his book he says a lot of things that are incorrect and can't be supported or proven true. Most of his sayings can be considered to be biased or mostlu opinions. One example can be scene in the third paragraph when he says "Every animal mates only with a member of the same species,"this is false analogy because there is no solid concrete evidence that this is true word for word. Also he is comparing one aspect of the human life to an aspect of the animal's life. This can also be looked as ad hominem because he is attacking a specific group of people and saying that it is wrong to mate with them. another example is when he says "Any crossing of two beings not at exactly the same level produces a medium between the level of two parents. This means:the offspring will probably stand higher than the racially lower parent but not as high as the higher one. Consequently, it will later succumb in the struggle against the higher level. Such mating is contrary to the will of Nature for a higher breeding of all life." What he is saying is that the kids of mixed races will suffer and are against "Nature" this also is a false analogy because again because their is no proof that mix races actually go against nature. He is also saying that one race is better than the other and higher than one. But I don't even think that, that is something that can be proved because we have a lot of people who are mixed races in the world today and we are doing just fine so his sayings are all mostly faulty use of authority and he uses his authority in a bad way to spread the wrong message. These two are only two of the many examples of fallacies that can be found in this book and you can check the book out yourselves to see what I mean and decide if you agree with me.

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  1. You have commented on some of the topics, but not all. I like the layout of your blog. 8/12 for week 1.

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