Originally Posted by
Stavros
As for Hitler, look at it this way: imagine someone asks -is it right to kill one man to save the lives of 1,000? Then, is it right to kill 1,000 to save the lives of 100,000? You can then ask, is it right to kill six million to save a civilization numbering multiple millions? Unless you provide a philosophy that argues in favour of the extinction of human life, there is no argument to be made, and if you do wish to consult such a philosophy, then the 'Race' based ideas of Adolf Hitler -which he did not develop himself alone- not only justify mass murder, but in their application, prove that it produces an outcome worse than the problem it intended to solve. This is not a philosophical paradox, it is just bad philosophy.