At 11:58 PM -0500 12/13/99, Cntryforce@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 12/13/99 9:55:08 AM Central Standard Time,
>pholden5@earthlink.net writes:
>
><< If you think for one moment that "passion" equals moral
> correctness I can only say, "How wrong can someone be?" No one
> in recent history was more passionate about his moral beliefs than
> Adolf Hitler. Have you ever seen newsreels of him "emoting" about
> the Jews?. Surely you can see from you knowledge of history that
> zeal is no measure of rectitude. >>
Hmmm... I'm not so sure about this Platt. Was Hitler passionate about what
he was doing? Being able to use passion to manipulate others takes a sort
of cold-hearted logic, eh? I picture Hitler as being very cunning and
manipulative and USING passion, but not being guided by it himself. In
fact, I'd say a man so skilled in the use of passion would be scornful of
it. Completely unswayed by it in any form. What general could
passionately disagree with the Fuhrer? You want to manipulate this guy
with passionate outbursts??? HE'll SHOW you what Passionate OUTBURSTS LOOK
LIKE YOU BLITHERING IDIOT!!!!!!!!
So the face of Nazi control was hard, implacable, logical; passions were
mere tools to be used upon the gullible. They were certainly not guides
to behaviour. How else could these humans turn little children into soap?
Their human passion was dead within them. Killed by a terrible social
logic that gripped their lives.
Even if zeal is not a guarantee of rectitude, lack of it while living in
an immoral society is a form of immorality, eh?
And a reminder? By MoQ definition, SOM Society is immoral. Intellect
without value is about as immoral as you can get.
jc
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