concordtom said:
calbear93 said:
blungld said:
concordtom said:
That would be reason for a Patriot to take him out!
Becomes more true and relevant a thought with each day that passes: "If you've ever wondered what you would have done in Nazi Germany, you're doing it now."
***?!
Really?
I may despise the man, but comparing him to Hitler (I guess it's the intellectually lazy analogy) and implicitly advocating assassination of a duly elected president make you nothing short of insane.
Consideration for comparison is entirely fair!
One cannot compare Trump to Hitler post-war. Hitler killed millions. Hitler launched WW2. Hitler rounded up Jews and exterminated them. He is very rare company in history for all that. Trump as done nothing of the sort.
However, if you compare Hitler's propaganda machine, if you compare Hitler's populism, if you compare the movement within this country to follow and obey, the tone, the lack of intellectualism, it's very comparable.
Trump is the kind of guy who COULD BECOME Hitler quite easily, I'm confident.
Assassination would be a horrible thing, and I do not advocate it.
However, let me ask you, calbear93: If you could magically turn back the clock and make it so Adolph Hitler were never born, would you do that? How do you think history might have gone differently?
These are philosophical questions, not calls for action. We should never (okay, VERY VERY rarely) try to right wrongs thru use of violence.
It is not a fair or even a philosophically interesting question.
Also, if you are comparing an entirely incompetent narcissist with maybe the greatest evil murderer in history, you have lost your sense of perspective.
Anyone could become Hitler. You could become Hitler. I don't know. But you are not yet Hitler. Until you are, I will not compare you to Hitler and I will not advocate your elimination. Fair?
I cannot magically make Hitler disappear from history, and this fantasizing about things that I would do if I could go back is just self glorification as if I alone can make things right.
There is constant evil in this world, some small and some great. There is evil on this board as well, with bitterness and strong desire to belittle someone for having a different viewpoint and inflating self-pride by thinking that repeating untested and unrealized principles over and over again makes one a better person. There is great evil in this world, including ISIS and genocide in Syria. There is suffering in this world, including homelessness and children going to sleep hungry. All of that was created by the evil in our hearts. Think of all of the hurt that you yourself created around you, even if not in the scale of Hitler. Instead of imagining something that will never happen, such as you going back in time or you somehow having the power to do something about Trump right now, change what you can change to remove a little bit of evil in your life. Be nice to those around you, not because they deserve it, but because it reduces a bit of the evil in this world. That is something you can actually do instead of thinking what you would do about Hitler. And that would be more interesting thing to consider.
But looking within ourselves and improving life around us is hard. It is a lot easier to call out famous people on a message board and mock people who don't march to our alleged principles because that actually doesn't require any effort or sacrifice. I am not necessarily pointing fingers, because we all do that. However, I think it is a weaker and more cowardly way to exercise moral integrity by mocking people instead of being kind to those around us.
