The thinking and movement (prejudice) behind the Eugenics movement is the kind of superior baloney thinking that tries to justified this warped
evil thinking. Slavery and Nazi Germany were born from this kind of propaganda, and it still lives in some (barely disguised) form today.
People stupid and lazy enough to justify wrong because it suits their own agenda. I mean it doesn't even need explaining, do we need to do back to kindergarten? Are people so morally corrupt they really have the mental reasoning and emotional processing of a 2 year old. It may look like people get away with the subjugation of others but there are universal laws in life and the absolute divinity and equality of all life is one of them.
In terms of growing States and Empires, the ends
never, I mean
never justified the means. Both our countries were built on the exploitation and lives of others, who others deemed less worthy than themselves, we have blood on our hands. Many of our grand institutions and buildings were built from this very wealth, how appalling and obscene is that.
Another universal law is that the subjugation of others is never right or justified. No one has the right to impose their will on another. All who do so will surely be damned to hell, and good riddance. It's a shame but you just can't go round exploiting people like that. Those who objectify others will be objectified in return, and will surely suffer the consequences if they never see the evil in it. The truth is I don't really believe in hell fire and damnation, I'm just trying to lay this out in a way that may be understandable to you'll. Two wrongs don't really make a right, but there are consequences for actions I believe, whether we like to think so of not.
@just me the fact that all this exploitation has happened throughout history doesn't 'prove' of justify a thing. It just goes to show that humanity has a way to go to evolve, and we have a history of letting evil occur unchecked. It also shows that as long as we allow despots to rule the show, (even a few) people will always, ultimately, be used as a 'thing', a commodity in one way or another and will never truly be free. Watch out because while you justify the exploitation of another group, you may well be next on the list on day. Any of us might be.
Have you seen the film 'The Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas?' It's a good film you should watch it. Actually I haven't seen the film but the books good. A Nazi Officer who works in a camp, has his kid go within the enclosure and befriend another young boy...and well you can pretty much imagine the rest.
@Eventhorizon you seem to be obsessed with people 'making excuses for not making a decent contribution to society', which seems a bit weird to me. Surely those making the least contribution are those who are exploiting others- e.g. those profiting from the labour of others, (like fat cats and other unscrupulous individuals) and those who only contribute through the politics and dialogue of hate. Surely those others who are not contributing are not doing so because they are up against a wall and can't. Show me an average human being who would rather have a mealy, limited life and living and eat poorly and suffer, in place of a decent job that employs his talents. The truth is that these people barely exist. This is another myth expounded by some individuals to further their agenda, and dismissal of a wide group of people. Most of the poor in this country, people going to food banks etc. are actually working by the way. They may be two or one adults in a household who are working (and children) or not as the case may be, and still finding it hard to survive.
The more resources and squeezed the more you see the politics of hate mobilised*, and that's what were beginning to see in both our countries. All this 'austerity' BS. It's almost as if the entire crash was planned just to screw the middle and lower classes, and I would not be surprised if it was. Most of us are on the way to becoming a slave class ourselves by the way.
*How convenient is that, if we fight and kill and war with each other, we save them the effort of doing it themselves..plus when we live in perpetual fear we are far more easily manipulated and exploited and more likely to believe whatever lies are fed to us. Wake up already!