Aren't you glad Hitler is dead? And who doesn't? But remember...?

Question

He didn't invent evil. So that he is dead? What difference does it make when I live in a humanity that never learns the hard lessons of history and is armed with nuclear weapons ready to create a conflagation that will make World War II, and its Holocaust, look like some ridiculous picnic? I fear this humanity. Feedback, please.

Answer 1

Being glad that he is dead isn’t the point, rather, it is that the philosophical concepts he represented failed. That it took the lives of millions to make ensure their failure is a tragedy. It is potentially more of a tragedy that the lessons learned from those years are apparently becoming forgotten. Here in Yahoo/Answers questions often are asked that demonstrate a lack of understanding what he represented.

History demonstrates that people with such ideas arise and some times gain control of governmental powers and as a result the lives of individuals are made increasingly difficult and often many people die. As an example, in these times there are fundamentalist extremists (of various religious groups) individuals and groups who believe in the reality of the apocalypse and further believe that it is their religious duty to ensure its occurring. When such individuals gain control of governments the danger to others increases dramatically. When those governments have control of significantly powerful militaries, the world is at danger.

Yes, that Hitler is dead and gone is a good thing, but it is even more important to ensure that the lessons learned from his time are taught to the youth of the world.

That said, concern about the use of nuclear weapons is valid but fear is not reasonable. You can look at the other side of the coin, that is, nuclear weapons have existed since 1945 when it was the only time they were used in warfare and then to save more than a 1,000,000 lives.

Since that time they have never been used. What a great and wondrous thing that in all of those years people have made every effort to not use them. To fear humanity when they work so hard at not allowing the worse to happen, that unreasonable fear is what should be feared.

Answer 2

Hilter was a "bad guy" by most strechs of the imagantion.
Nobody will learn- because being evil depends on the envoriment you live in and what kind of person you were made out to be (vengeful, arrogant, mental insane)
it's all in our cards.

Answer 3

"Hilter was a "bad guy" by most strechs of the imagantion.
Nobody will learn- because being evil depends on the envoriment you live in and what kind of person you were made out to be (vengeful, arrogant, mental insane)
it's all in our cards." ~PC

I agree

Answer 4

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Answer 5

i think nobody knows,but i agree of what your saying