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Originally posted by Not Me
It isn't a game. I won this debate fairly by pointing out your inconsistent positions. Your first post talked about how science profs try to weed people out and the humanities profs are more welcoming of students with different majors. Somehow, this led you to conclude that grades do not reflect intrinsic merit.
Then you make the point that if a prof asks harder questions on a test, a B in that class means more than an A- in a class where the test questions were easier. I agree with you on this point, however, it contradicts your earlier post about grades not reflecting intrinsic merit.
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I'm not seeing an inconsistent position. My point was that grades are artifacts of grading systems, and have no intrinsic significance. This is seen in the fact that a B in a class with one professor may mean more than an A- in the same class with another professor.
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I meant unwilling to stop the Nazis from killing jews once the Nazis were in fact killing jews. I was not talking about the various groups vying for power in pre-WWII Germany. I am talking about how little was done to stop the killing of jews.
The various political groups competing with Hitler for the affections of the german people prior to WWII were competing to establish their own power or because they didn't agree with a war. They weren't trying to save the jews.
Yeah, I saw Schiendler's list, too. The reason it was a story that was made into a movie is because it was so fucking rare that a German would have done something like that to save jews.
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I haven't seen Schindler's List, and am sorry that I was unable to divine your thoughts from your post. There are Germans who died trying to stop Hitler, including many privileged officers who were executed in Plotzensee after the bomb in the Wolf's Lair failed to kill Hitler. Germans generally accept the country's collective responsibility for the Holocaust. One might further note, however, that there are not many examples of a citizenry successfully standing up to a totalitarian government.
