The people in your concentration camp analogy have done no one any harm, yet they've been imprisoned and gratuitously tortured...
Actually, Hitler and the Nazi party would beg to differ. They believed that these groups *were* actually dangerous and had to be used or eliminated, their enemies and "people in their way" eliminated, and using some of your very lines of reasoning. That's the point. You're justifying all that Lex is doing (using motivations he rarely if ever vocalized, to boot) based on dehumanizing a group of people and reducing them to his objects/tools See where I'm going with this? Using the acts of a few people to justify condemning, using, and exploiting an entire group of people wholesale is unethical and logically fallacious. I don't buy your logic of collective punishment, scapegoating, and re: the entitlement that we should allow "enlightened" folk who've pinpointed the "problem" and have come up with a final "solution". I've not even been convinced of their end to be any where near convinced of their inhumane means. Designating someone the "savior" of the human race, the only entitled and enlightened one, that can do as he pleases based on tenuous evidence and emotionality rings close to a lot of dictators' views of themselves. Flouting hundrefs of years of law and justice, who is Lex to be judge, jury, executioner, and military?
If you don't see what's wrong with what Lex has done with the people he's holding prisoner or seized--people like that kid or Chloe who were minding their own business and a threat to no one--then I've really learned more than I needed to learn this morning about how and why unspeakable atrocities still continue in the world. Don't apologize, obviously I'm still knee-deep in naive, sitting here thinking we've progressed past the point where things like this are still vehemently defended and even supported.
Last post, really this time.
Actually, Hitler and the Nazi party would beg to differ. They believed that these groups *were* actually dangerous and had to be used or eliminated, their enemies and "people in their way" eliminated, and using some of your very lines of reasoning. That's the point. You're justifying all that Lex is doing (using motivations he rarely if ever vocalized, to boot) based on dehumanizing a group of people and reducing them to his objects/tools See where I'm going with this? Using the acts of a few people to justify condemning, using, and exploiting an entire group of people wholesale is unethical and logically fallacious. I don't buy your logic of collective punishment, scapegoating, and re: the entitlement that we should allow "enlightened" folk who've pinpointed the "problem" and have come up with a final "solution". I've not even been convinced of their end to be any where near convinced of their inhumane means. Designating someone the "savior" of the human race, the only entitled and enlightened one, that can do as he pleases based on tenuous evidence and emotionality rings close to a lot of dictators' views of themselves. Flouting hundrefs of years of law and justice, who is Lex to be judge, jury, executioner, and military?
If you don't see what's wrong with what Lex has done with the people he's holding prisoner or seized--people like that kid or Chloe who were minding their own business and a threat to no one--then I've really learned more than I needed to learn this morning about how and why unspeakable atrocities still continue in the world. Don't apologize, obviously I'm still knee-deep in naive, sitting here thinking we've progressed past the point where things like this are still vehemently defended and even supported.