On 2009-02-08 18:38:08 -0500, HMS Victor Victorian
<VictorVictorian@HRM.com> said:
> I've come across two images on this good Sunday,that has given me
> pause.
>
> Truly a child is born of innocence and potential,
> Without preordination
> And his potential is shaped by love and caring,
> Or horribly misshaped by the cruelties of
> An angry and bitter world.
> And through that tutelage
> Learns True Evil.
>
> HMS Victor Victorian NP-g18
>
>
> God Save the Queen!
> God Preserve the Prince of Wales!
> Rule Britannia!
Your overall point is very well taken.
However, I think in using photos of young Adolph Hitler to make your
point -- and placing your captions in the mouth of Hitler himself,
paraphrasing "Mein Kampf" perhaps? -- you undermine the whole thing on
historical grounds. There is no particular evidence outside Hitler's
own claims decades later -- which were part of a general program of
auto-hagiography that painted his early life and struggles in a very
dark light, in order to magnify the splendour of his triumph -- that he
was abused as a child. The only testimony to this effect is Hitler's
own. And please remember, we are not talking here about one of the
great truth-tellers of history.
This does not negate the idea that children are born innocent and
should be treated with love and care ... if that IS your point. But if
you are also suggesting that Hitler should be remembered as a victim,
and that therefore his crimes -- against humanity in general, against
Jews in particular, against the German people, against the rule of law,
against the whole enterprise of civilization -- that these crimes are
SOMEBODY ELSE'S FAULT, the fault of his mean daddy, then you are on
shaky ground, to say the least.
Surely you're aware of Godwin's Law.
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