Wednesday, February 18, 2009

The Fallacies of Mein Kampf (Chapter 11)

Not surprisingly, these writtings of Hitler are overrun with with common biases and faulty claims. His clear willingness to "eliminate" the supposedly sub dominant species gives rise to numerous flawed claims of of fact. Instead of actually stating his argument clearly, throughout he merely uses a form of rhetoric to persuade the reader, impulsivley making assumption after assumption. The first evidence of his error is visible in the line " Each animal mates only with it's own species." First of all disregarding the various exceptions of nature, he is assuming that there are other sub genres of the human species. With that statment he has suggested that the human race is composed of different species, which is already a fallacy in itself. There are no sub-human catagories to date and it is not likely that there will be any in the near future. Further more even if there were, it's fairly irrational to suppose that one holds dominion over the other as he states "For this reason it must eventually succumb in any struggle against the higher species." Without any evidence or reason he is is just to suppose that one group of people is stronger than the other. Reading further into the document it becomes clear that this is no more a research book than it is a call to arms.

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