I agree with you and don't hate Nazis. I hate murderers though, so I hate many of the Nazis but not all of them. Some Nazis helped Jews escape their fate and if it were not for them, some of those people would not be alive today. Disagree with me all you want, I couldn't believe otherwise.

In fact, even some of the mass murderers, the Einsatzgruppen, the meticulous destroyers of entire populations throughout Eastern Europe showed signs of their shame and guilt. When someone feels shame and guilt, that is a sign of their humanity which begs for love and forgiveness.

That doesn't excuse the horrors that they contributed to, but it also shows that they were not merely bogeymen and were themselves victims.

Now, it's very human for you to disagree with my sentiments on this topic out of love and honor for those who were unjustly murdered in this life -- we are a passionate species and it is very right to feel anger towards murderers -- but if an actual loving god (not a torturing one) were to exist, it would forgive and love for the same reasons. That's my belief and I sleep well at night for having it. Otherwise, I would simply be filled with anger and hate for the people who have caused me pain in MY actual life.

Nazis never did a goddamn thing to me directly so it's only conceptual hate that I can feel towards them. But there are people who existed side by side with me who have done me great harm -- and I even forgive and love those people who directly violated my trust. People MUST forgive those that have harmed them in order to move forward with their lives, by accepting their humanity, which although flawed, is still a mammalian emotional being, neocortex enabled and desiring compassion.

Another interesting conceptual form of love is when the family of murder victims forgive the convicted killers who harmed their own family. Isn't that interesting that some people are willing to not hate murderers of their own family members? Or when George Wallace forgave the man who attempted to assassinate him? Sure, he was a born againer and the pro-segregationist who tried to deny black people from signing up for school with white kids, but he still had it in him to forgive and to love, and that to me says he too must be forgiven and loved, because a change occurred in him and his empathy manifested in new ways as his perceptions of mankind changed over time.

@bareboards2

"The talk" that White, Latino, and Asian parents have with their children goes like this:

1. 90% of violent interracial crime involves a Black perpetrator and a White victim... but nobody cares.

2. Black teenagers die 1000% more from fellow Blacks than from Whites... but nobody cares.

Sources.

Liberals think the above stats are reversed. That misunderstanding of the statistics is why their arguments on race tend to emphasize base emotion (the "reptile brain") instead of data and thoughtfulness (the neocortex).

(If any of that data is wrong, please let me know.)

I don't have a problem with his statement-Though cliched to a degree the point is obvious and from the looks of your rant you've got personal issues with this user or his simplified statement of what should be obvious to anyone with a larger proportion of neocortex, with disproportionate enlargement of pre-frontal and temporal association cortices than lower apes.

"I love to eat it everyday, and if you ask me why I'll saaaaaaaayyyyyy...!" (fill in the last line with more baloney!)

Ha. If their ethnicities were different, people would be telling grand narratives.

Anyway, I assume she has a neocortex that can approximate human-level intelligence, so she should be capable of acting like a big girl and stop parasiting us.

I just posted a relevant video on computational neuroscience, which might answer some questions.

It's a bit hard to argue with "we think it works this way" when you have a machine that also works "this way".

How a Theory of the Neocortex May Lead to Truly Intelligent Machines

<ahref="http://www.videosift.com/edit.php?id=29337">Aldous Huxley: Sum & Substance (1/3)
A conversation with Aldous Huxley. The first of three parts covers the following:
- Intelligence & Good Will
- Discoursive Logic & Non-verbal Awareness
- Scientific language & Poetry
- Culture's Benefits & Traps
- Breaking out of our culture

<ahref="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbAPLJUl3mI">Aldous Huxley: Sum & Substance (2/3)
The second of three parts covers the following:
- Power politics / Arms race
- Destruction of the environment
- Corybantic dances / Dionysian orgies
- The Third World's dilemma
- Large-scale educational experimentation
- Reptilian brain vs. Neocortex

<ahref="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwDMtbadCYY">Aldous Huxley: Sum & Substance (3/3)
The last of three parts covers the following:
- Human potential
- New educational approaches
- Receptivity: "A wise passiveness"