The reason I wrote this post...
Was to talk about my pet peeves, and now I appear to have opened a can of worms.

The reason why I look at Hitler in this way, is due to a history teacher I had several years ago. I was taught that to be able to write a good essay, you have to be able to argue both sides of the point.

I agree that there is more than likely a special place in hell for people like Hitler, but as long as we dismiss him off-hand as a "evil bastard", we won't learn anything from the mistakes that led him to power, and the world to war.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 2 May 2008, 14:41, Reply)