ForgedinHell wrote:Amazingly enough, the sad, pathetic, imbecile for the ages, named Kant, is a hero of many on this forum. In addition to his repeated gibberish writings, some of his more immoral idiocy is set forth in the following quotes:
i am curious as to how you came across these quotes
did you actually read kant and came across them as you were reading
or did you go to some objectivist website that had the sillier bits all there ready for you?
the problem with a lot of criticism of kant - or just about anything else for that matter - lies in the bizarre notion that you cannot pick and choose
the bible - you must either accept it all or reject it all
writings of kant - you must either accept it all or reject it all
instructions from ikea - you must either accept them all or reject them all
"Humanity exists in its greatest perfection in the white race."
many of kants ideas were thoroughly conventional
many of anyones ideas were and area thoroughly conventional
is there a point here
i am aware of no one who claims that kant was right in everything
it is alway immoral to lie, "even if lying saves an innocent life."
if not for this example kant's ethics would not be particularly controversial
maybe we can just reject this example as a bad one and proceed to judge kants ethical theory without refernece to it?
"The negroes of Africa have by nature no feeling that rises above the trifling." "The blacks are very vain but in the Negroe's way, and so talkative that they must be driven apart from each other with thrashings." (Iuess you can't brag about whitey, unless you demonize blacks. What a jerk-off this guy was. Intellectual hero, my ass.)
At how great a distance from this perfection are the civilized nations, and especially the commercial nations of Europe? At what an excess of injustice do we not behold them arrive, when they discover strange countries and nations? (which with them is the same thing as to conquer). America, the countries inhabited by the negroes, the Spice Islands, the Cape, &c. were to them countries without proprietors, for the inhabitants they counted as nothing. Under pretext of establishing factories in Hindostan, they carried thither foreign troops, and by their means oppressed the natives, excited wars among the different states of that vast country; spread famine, rebellion, perfidy, and the whole deluge of evils that afflict mankind, among them.
-from 'perpetual peace'
maybe kant was ahead of his time after all