Hitler seems to be a pretty good guy, huh. Treats his kanmusu well.
The actual Hitler can be a really good guy when he gets his way. And you don't happen to be one of those people he considers 'degenerate'.
The way he treats Yuu is quite similar to how the real person treated his secretaries and pet dog. Well, at least before the war turned badly and he started to have mental breakdowns 24/7.
I'll say he's actually a very empathetic, emotional person who is capable of showing great kindness and caring, and was neither a sociopath nor a psychopath as what most people would think of him. it's just well, sad that his massive inferiority complex and disaffection over how the previous government handled WW I had led him down to a path of hate and madness.
(He's also probably a bit cuckoo in a way, but the same brand of cuckoo commonly found among artists and academics.)
I think it is important to realize that it doesn't take horrible monsters to commit great evil. The potential for evil, for committing great cruelty exists in every one of us, even among some of the kindest people, and it is important to realize that as we go upon our daily lives lest we end up doing something we regret later on. Or worse, doing something bad to other people and failing to regret it at all.
It's just a shame that most media just portray him as a spawn of Satan evil incarnate. Nope, no morals to be learnt here, he's just an evil monster. Yep. It's like they're scared that people would start to emulate Hitler if they start to empathize with him (part of the reason for some of the criticism of Downfall). No, it is when we empathize with people like Hitler, when we understand the motives for what they did, and realize that they are human like us, then only can we learn from their mistakes. Otherwise history will just repeat itself.
We can easily empathize with Kim Jong and say that he's doing good work by suppressing his people, rejecting western ways and giving the finger to human rights but that doesn't make it right.
We could argue that Stalin, Mao Zedong and Kim Jong Un are actually nice people too on the inside and to their favorite pets. Doesn't really excuse them from what they've done.
Hell, take any horrible person in history that done countless horrific deeds and we can make them look righteous. It's not that hard, but that doesn't make they good people.
We can easily empathize with Kim Jong and say that he's doing good work by suppressing his people, rejecting western ways and giving the finger to human rights but that doesn't make it right.
We could argue that Stalin, Mao Zedong and Kim Jong Un are actually nice people too on the inside and to their favorite pets. Doesn't really excuse them from what they've done.
Hell, take any horrible person in history that done countless horrific deeds and we can make them look righteous. It's not that hard, but that doesn't make they good people.
I didn't say that they were righteous, or what they doing were good. Or that it even excuses whatever behavior they did. Yes, all those actions are evil, and some of them are probably even sociopathic or psychopathic (I'm looking at you, the Kim family. Lack of empathy is a hallmark trait. Must be the silver spoon thing). But they are still human, nonetheless. And I'm just saying that if you slap on a convenient 'Capital E for Evil' label on them and just file it under whichever drawer you have in your mind it is very easy to not look deeper into the circumstances which led to them committing great evil. And if you happen to chance on similar circumstances in your life, you may fail to notice and walk down a similar path. When we just conveniently demonize a person we fail to examine things critically, and fail to understand the circumstances and actions which led to the evil act.
It's like taking a look at say, a school massacre and just labeling the murderer as a 'sicko' instead of analyzing what led to it. Yes, what the guy did was evil, and he should be punished for it. But if we never examine what influenced him on that action (bullying, poor family, etc.), we would be hard-pressed to avoid similar things happening in the future.
History is a lens to the past. We study history with the benefit of hindsight to learn from our forebears' mistakes, and to avoid repeating them. To do otherwise is a great disservice to history.
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CookieYome said:
If I may, I actually think the same can be said for great leaders now in reverse.
You could patronize one person as a great leader, or ridicule someone as a vicious and horrible human. But in the end, they are all human in the same.
What I'm trying to say is; humans are all potentially evil, and righteous at the same time. They could perform cruelty or immense kindness at any time.
No one is truely evil nor good.
In my opinion, you can't really comfortably call anyone good or bad. The best adjectives I am ever comfortable of using is kind or nasty.
I think I agree quite strongly here. We can label actions, and maybe even character traits as good or evil, but to label a person as absolutely good or evil presupposes certain things (that he is either a saint or rotten to the core).
And yeah, dictators are grade-A jerks (or grade-F, as the case may be), even if they started out as nice people, and it doesn't matter how nice they treat their family and friends. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely...road to hell is paved with good intentions...etc. etc.
I didn't say that they were righteous, or what they doing were good. Or that it even excuses whatever behavior they did. Yes, all those actions are evil, and some of them are probably even sociopathic or psychopathic (I'm looking at you, the Kim family. Lack of empathy is a hallmark trait. Must be the silver spoon thing). But they are still human, nonetheless. And I'm just saying that if you slap on a convenient 'Capital E for Evil' label on them and just file it under whichever drawer you have in your mind it is very easy to not look deeper into the circumstances which led to them committing great evil. And if you happen to chance on similar circumstances in your life, you may fail to notice and walk down a similar path. When we just conveniently demonize a person we fail to examine things critically, and fail to understand the circumstances and actions which led to the evil act.
It's like taking a look at say, a school massacre and just labeling the murderer as a 'sicko' instead of analyzing what led to it. Yes, what the guy did was evil, and he should be punished for it. But if we never examine what influenced him on that action (bullying, poor family, etc.), we would be hard-pressed to avoid similar things happening in the future.
History is a lens to the past. We study history with the benefit of hindsight to learn from our forebears' mistakes, and to avoid repeating them. To do otherwise is a great disservice to history.
I agree about you, especially we need to examine the source of influence to prevent similar happenings in the future. Thank you for sharing your thought with us.
I also think that if he was not influenced by certain sources that triggered him to be the great murderer, he could be just an ordinary person(or an artist if he decided to restart), who loves animals. [Believe it or not, he was the pioneer of animal protection, since he established the Animal Protection Act for the first time in the world.]
...However, while it maybe ok to review him with an angle of merciful, I wish we should never, EVER, forget what he and his organization had done before. [Similar as what John F. Kennedy said, "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."] Because if we don't careful ourselves [viewing him with too much of merciful perspective / forgetting what he had done before / or simply be ignorant about him], our naive heart could be exploited by his fanatic followers, who seriously think his every work [Holocaust / attempting genocide / leading his organization to commit indescribable crimes] was absolutely right.
And, please, try to avoid mentioning about him(especially talking about him like he was an innocent person) to the people whose nation was GREATLY suffered by his organization before [Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Israel & others][Even Germany itself].
P.S. Meanwhile, I worry about what is current Japanese young people's perspective about him. Because I witnessed several picture(& their comments) depicted him as some sort of great person, who fought along side with Imperial Japan for struggling to fight against greedy of 鬼畜米英(Devil US and UK). ..And how Alicesoft's Daiteikoku beautifies him as an innocent girl with innocent doing.
P.S.2 I will try to view him(in this picture's) as a person who was not influenced by the certain sources. As well as he truly loves his Kanmusus as how he loves animals.
Ok fucking calling it here. GODWIN IS SPINNING YOU GAGGLE OF FUCKWITS.
This is supposed to be a picture of Yuu being utterly adorable in a European style maid outfit, and the lot of you shit lickers are debating the moral character of obvious EVIL warlords.
All this text questioning about moral and I am just sitting here looking at how adorable Yuu look in that maid outfit in panel 4. Boy, do I love enjoying simple things.
I came to this comment section for "DAWWWW she's in a maid dress" and left an enlightened being. but srsly you guys should be public speakers or write books or something.
I wonder if there will come a time when people try to humanize Osama Bin Laden and Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi because they're pretty much the modern day Hitlers.
...Oh, and yeah U-511 is cute. Must not forget the important part of this message.
Mein Führrrrer!
Gute Arrrrrbeit!!
"Mein Führer, good job!" Again, English in the original (except for Führer), with dragged out vowels.To think that she would want a maid's dress, huh.Schöööööööön!!"Niiiice!" Admiral Donuts is speaking in English in the original.flutterflutterSeems like the Führer gave her a set of maid clothes as a present.schwebCalm yourself, Dönitz.It really suits h—