MEIN KAMPF by Adolf Hitler

So apparently "Mein Kampf" translates to "My Struggle," or "My Conflict". How sad...because Hitler's life was so hard, wasn't it? *cough*

Anyways, today we read an excerpt from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, "On Nation and Race". The erroneous reasoning in his arguments are good examples of fallacies. For example, his opening line states that there are many truths that should be very obvious to everyone, but few people are able to see them. This is his general attitude, that his beliefs are superior to everyone else's, because everyone else is just a "normal" person, implying that he is extraordinary in comparison. He is, essentially, putting down everyone else as stupid and ignorant. This is the fallacy of Ad Hominem, which literally means "against the man". Ad Hominem fallacies are arguments that attack the other person instead of the other person's argument.

Satan Hitler makes further fallacies when he compares the inter-special mixing of animals to interracial mixing of humans. His argument here is that Nature does not allow the healthy reproduction of bi-special (is that a word? like biracial, but for species...) animals, which proves that inter-special and interracial mixing is unnatural and an abomination. He says that animals only mate with other members of the same species, and if they do mate outside their species, the offspring are either genetically hindered or sterile. Hitler uses this idea to support the idea that like animals, humans should only mix with people of the same race. This is a False Analogy because the two do not compare. While the animal kingdom is separated into many different species, humans are all the same species - Homo Sapien. Therefore, Hitler's comparison here is faulty.

Another of Hitler's fallacies is that of Begging the Question, which he makes when he claims that people of Aryan roots are the superior race. To beg the question is to assume that the argument is already proven when it hasnHe says that Aryans are more genetically advantaged, and are basically better than all other races in every way possible. However, Hitler has no proof or supporting information for this claim, which marks it as a Hasty Generalization as well.

Hitler also says that if a person of a higher race reproduces with a person of a lower race, then the child will be in between those levels of genetic greatness. This is a Hasty Generalization because he has absolutely no valid basis for such a statement.