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tptacek 3 days ago

This is a thread that began with opprobrium over "sickly" people being allowed into the gene pool and is now ending with a dissection of whether the Nazis really were as bad as they're made out to be. For the record: my assessment of Nazism doesn't much change even if you switch its mode of governance from fascism to classical liberalism. Nazism wasn't bad simply because it didn't adhere to the non-aggression principle.

_bin_ 3 days ago | parent [-]

I am a general fan of the non-aggression principle and nowhere did I say nazism was good. I was responding to the guy who claimed my position was inextricably linked to the worst thing ever.

I also didn’t say sickly people shouldn’t be “allowed” into the gene pool, I said it’s usually wrong for them to have biological children

tptacek 3 days ago | parent [-]

I have no idea who you are, no personal connection to this thread, no real reason to commit myself to any side of this argument; this is all happening basically in the abstract to me. It is in that spirit that I tell you, as candidly as I can, that your position is in fact inextricably linked to the worst thing ever.

I believe you when you say that you don't believe it is and that you fervently don't want it to be. But that doesn't change the morality of a discussion about whether it is good or bad that certain people (those clearing your moral filter) exist.