Killing Hitler is good and funny and I would do it without hesitation, but I don’t think this is dunk worthy.
The original argument is basically a condemnation of great man history - even if you killed Hitler, you would not necessarily avert the rise of German fascism. Fascism arises in response to certain material and social conditions and contradictions which were present in Weimar Germany. Perhaps German fascism without Hitler would look or behave differently to Nazism, but if we believe in materialism then we must acknowledge the strong possibility that German fascism would arise without any specific individual.
First I just said that voting is useless, this person jumped to political assassination, then from there totally unprompted did another strawman saying even hypothetically killing hitler would be bad. I was literally just pointing out that obsession with electoralism was a waste of energy.
Killing Hitler is good and funny and I would do it without hesitation, but I don’t think this is dunk worthy.
The original argument is basically a condemnation of great man history - even if you killed Hitler, you would not necessarily avert the rise of German fascism. Fascism arises in response to certain material and social conditions and contradictions which were present in Weimar Germany. Perhaps German fascism without Hitler would look or behave differently to Nazism, but if we believe in materialism then we must acknowledge the strong possibility that German fascism would arise without any specific individual.
Not really though if you read the whole thread.
First I just said that voting is useless, this person jumped to political assassination, then from there totally unprompted did another strawman saying even hypothetically killing hitler would be bad. I was literally just pointing out that obsession with electoralism was a waste of energy.