Hitler was not elected, he's got in power
through a militarry-type take-over
with the financial and power support
of the capitalist class that was terrified
by the previous victories of the german
worker's movement. He used his power to
terrify and brainwash the people.
Don't tell me that there was a free flow of
information and no intimidation by the time
there were "elections".
You might as well say that Brezhnev
was "elected".
Well, torture is not legal anymore in
most countries. There is international
popular pressure against countries
where it is or where it is used illegaly.
The problem is, that it is not in the interest
of the capitalist countries to do anything about it,
because they make good profits in these countries.
It was the people who made the law to outlaw
the slave trade. They could only do it, when
all the information about it was available
and those who made the profits from it were defeated.
Human society is not static. What was accepted behaviou a
generation go, can be totally abhorent now.
Normal people control their aggressive, sexual etc.urges,
only when society somehow breaks down are conditions
arising that allows such controls to break down.
How would your benevolant technocrat scientists overcome
all this innate nastiness you talk about?
You repeat your stuff without answering any of these points.
Eva
That's exactly my point. Given the opportunity, it would happen anywhere,
at any time. There is nothing inherent in man that keeps him torturing and
murdering his fellows. For example, the practice of human torture was
"legal" for at least 3,000 years and formed a part of most legal codes in
Europe and the Far East.
Remember that Hitler was elected by "the people". Moreover, the men who
ran the camps during WW2 were, for the most part, average people.
Remember the Slave trade? Just some conscious family men trying to
make a buck and put their kids through school.
Let "the people" make all the laws? Bad idea!
Jay
