Up@dawn 2.0

Thursday, April 4, 2013

14-2

Sorry about the late post but my laptop got a virus and I couldn't post.

Our philosopher was a female! Yay. She talked about the nazis and how they actually were very similar to us normal people, you know the ones that dont go out every day and go through with mass genocide. So how can people that seem so similar to us kill and hate a group of people? Arendt seemed to think that it was because the generals that were below Hitler were just following orders and that they actually weren't making the decisions to kill. In our group we talked about how sometimes crimes and actions that are deemed as wrong or evil in society depends on the reasoning behind why they are doing it. In Nazi Germany the generals were just following orders, so are they evil? What about a person who steals food or money to keep his family fed or keep them living in a house? Those examples that were brought up in class really made me think because the man that is just trying to feed his family doesn't neccessarily need to go to jail. He still committed a "crime" though and that is what i still struggle with. O well, food for thought.

1 comment:

  1. First off, I'm surprised no one has mentioned breaking bad as an example yet, since references to that show seem to appear everywhere nowadays. Seriously though, its a great example. The main character deals meth in order to take care of his family creating a moral dilemma that fascinates viewers. Whether or not such difficult choices can be deemed as wrong depends on a person's take on ethics. As a utilitarian, I can't say that the generals were justified. Even though they were just "following orders," those orders cost many people their lives. Being a dictator means capitalizing on the general feelings of a state of people. That's exactly what Hitler did, so to some extent, i think that those nazi generals were fine with what they were doing. Hitler just gave them an excuse to do it.

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