Well to start off...Happy belated Valentines Day~
Today we read a small portion of Chapter 11 of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kamf. Hitler writes, "Every animal mates only with a member of the same species". Most people would assume he's referring to animals, like actual animals in the wild. However, he's actually talking about races and how one should not marry or mate outside of their own race. He even goes to the extent of refering to us as "animals" and races as different species. Not very surprising. This claim is an example of false analogy, which is when an analogy is descriptive but does not offer proof of a connection between the two things being compared. He compares species to humans but the fault of this claim is that there are no subspecies of humans. Human is just one species and Hitler is trying to prove to us that there are inferior and superior "species" of humans without even supplying any evidence. Racial categories are NOT species, that's a given. Hitler assumes that the crossbreeding of races may mess up the gene pool; he's basically just attempting to form boundaries between races.
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