Hi WhatshallIcallmyself You are asking: “Why do you insist on quoting people so often? Can't you formulate your own thoughts? ”
There is a reason. My dad
is a Jew (Mom is Christian) and my grand father is a Holocaust survivor. While
going through the horrors of Auschwitz, many victims used to discuss between
themselves why this kind of things happen on earth. One of them has put it this
way [which has gone on record]: “If we present a man with a concept of man
which is not true, we may well corrupt him. When we present man as an automaton
of reflexes, as a mind-machine, as a bundle of instincts, as a pawn of drives
and reactions, as a mere product of instinct, heredity, and environment, we
feed the nihilism to which modern man is, in any case, prone. I became
acquainted with the last stage of that corruption in my second concentration
camp, Auschwitz. The gas chambers of Auschwitz were the ultimate consequence of
the theory that man is nothing but the product of heredity and environment—or,
as the Nazi liked to say, of ‘Blood and Soil.’ I am absolutely convinced that
the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared
not in some Ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the
lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.”–Richard Weikart The
Dehumanizing Impact of Modern Thought Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, and Their
Followers
http://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=2274