Time and Culturally Based Morality
Time and Culturally Based MoralityAny way you look at it millions and millions of Germans did believe in Hitler. And it was a belief that was spread not only in the slums or ignorant but it included intellectuals, scientists, and political party members, even opposing party members believed him. What they believed was one of the biggest lies ever told. A lie that will be remembered by the whole world and all the generations to come. The lie of Germans being a superior race swept throughout the country instilling fear in the heart of anyone of Jewish religion or other backgrounds. Some people say that he thought himself God. But Hitler did not think he was God, he thought himself to be someone predestined by God with a knowledge given to him and only him and a mission given to him by divine intervention which was destined to change the course of all humanity. All this with one lie. In this picture (page 2) we see the corpses of hundreds of Jews stacked up about 15 feet high in the snow. Any movement or ideal which has this picture included in its mean to an end cannot be right. Today, many years after this massacre of Jews, we don't even question the fact that Hitler might have been right or ev
en on to something. I believe this picture to, without a doubt, shows how cruel his ambitions were. We have to ask ourselves how someone as Hitler, without superior studies, was able to in just a few years introduce himself into the highest political levels, trick experimented leaders of great nations, convert millions of civilized people into followers and enforcers, and raise the largest genocide known to man and be followed until the very end? When I see a picture such as this, with all the bodies piled up I think of how someone be convinced that this was right? How someone in their right mind could believe that this picture, what had been done in this picture was acceptable. By accepting what Hitler believed one would have to believe that the dead bodies in this picture were just insignificant or unimportant. Many things throughout history have happened such as this. Events that we just look back upon and think, "How is this possible?" How did someone, someone normal as my self believe, or be convinced that one race was superior to all others and all others should be killed? Well the answer to this question may be that brutality and people's morals are culture and time based. At that time, in that culture (Germany) the ideals and morals were different. What was right for them was that all others were inferior to their race. In older days such as the Old Testament in the bible, animals were sacrificed to please God. That is what was done in that time period and that culture or religion. This today is not done. I am not trying to justify at all the Nazis actions, but more trying to comprehend how so many people were persuaded to do such horrendous things. The killing of the Jews by the nazis is the not the only event in history that has had the same effect. In this second picture that was actually a drawing we see an African American in a cornfield. It is actually a woman with a b
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