Nazis

Listening to some of the media earlier today you'd think Hitler was running for Parliament. The American overuse of Nazi has come to Canada.

I may live to regret this Post (see it in an attack ad one day!) but let's stop and think for a moment.

Are the Nazis remembered as the model of evil because they (1) banned smoking in public (2) had full time Party activists located in each major electoral district or (3) killed people because they disliked their ethnic background?

The question is rhetorical.

A lot of Nazi policy was pretty standard big government stuff. And their Party constitution (absent the Führerprinzip) was ordinary enough.

The Nazis were evil because they put a value on a human life (and a pretty low or even negative value) depending on race, origin or politics. They were content to kill for reasons that were wrong -- politics and ethnicity. The Nazis were not evil because they were highly organised or believed in Big Government.

It may be that Big Government and highly organised political parties are bad but if they are it's not because of Hitler.

James Morton
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