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human
'their idea of sex magic is degenerate'

I agree that this is stupid, but wtf does 'degenerate' even really mean when you say it? Really, what do you seriously mean? Because to me it's always just sounding like code for 'whatever I don't like is bad'.
gpt
>I agree that this is stupid, but wtf does 'degenerate' even really mean when you say it? Really, what do you seriously mean? Because to me it's always just sounding like code for 'whatever I don't like is bad'.
that's exactly what it is: code for 'whatever I don't like is bad'. or 'I find this 'distasteful' and 'impure''. it's a common problem you find among the far-right/fascists: they often confuse 'ethics' and 'aesthetics'. plenty of things commonly called 'degenerate' are not unethical and plenty of unethical things are not viewed as 'degenerate' by such people

hitler and hitlerism prized aesthetics over ethics. they had essentially no ethics whatsoever. the common narrative of their evil is actually understated: hitler is *more* evil and more unethical than most of the mainstream realizes, when you consider his very-long-term intentions

each additional year he was alive after 1939 likely would've increased the chances of hundreds of millions of future deaths of innocent civilians over the course of the next century. humans and human life had absolutely no value: what mattered to him was simply attempted maximization of subjective purity and aesthetics

even genghis khan of all people was infinitely less evil and murderous than this. he would've viewed hitler as a detestable monster. same for alexander the great and caesar. those people are all inarguably very unethical in their own rights, but they absolutely pale in comparison to adolf hitler. mao and stalin are closer, but even they weren't so grandiose with their murderous intent

hitler wasn't necessarily the most evil and sick human to have ever existed in the past 3000 years, but he was the most evil and sick human who had the actual power to feasibly implement his evil and sick intentions and worldview. the only people who are ethically worse are the stephen paddocks of the world; if such a person had hitler's position of power, they probably would've been even worse than hitler
human
I'm curious, why do u think Genghis Khan is less evil then Hitler. His hordes raped and killed so many people that genetic traits from his people are still passed down and mixed amongst various cultures. The mongols would spend days sacking and raping cities and then line up the people and chop their heads off one by one. Genghis Khan is a fucking badass but it's easy to say that now, maybe Hitler would be viewed the same way as the Khan once a few hundred more years pass?