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Old February 3rd 18, 10:42 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Gerald Kelleher
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On Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 6:59:30 AM UTC, Paul Schlyter wrote:


Which means that the WWII Nazis had the right to do the Holocaust:
their value system said so, and they even had laws supporting that
right.


Value system indeed, they borrowed directly from the empirical notion of sub-human or anthropomorphous as it was called in mid-19th century academic circles. If the Nazi ideology was an application then the operating system is Darwin.

“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.” Darwin

What was anthropomorphous in the 19th century (negroes, aborigines, famine Irish) became untermensch (Jews, disabilities) in the 20th century and foetus (developing child) in the 21st century and each term bound by extermination or the turning of a life into a corpse for some political/social excuse..