Man's inhumanity to everything civilized

[Sky727]

I wanted to say man's inhumanity to man but men women and children were included . I always retained one bullet for myself because I was resigned to never be taken alive.
 

The Auschwitz concentration camp was not only a place of mass extermination but also of extreme cruelty, where Nazi guards and doctors subjected Jewish prisoners to unspeakable torture. Beyond starvation and forced labor, the camp became a laboratory of human suffering, designed to break both the body and spirit of its victims. Every method of torment was carefully orchestrated to strip individuals of their dignity and humanity. One of the most terrifying aspects was the brutal medical experimentation carried out by Nazi doctors like Josef Mengele. Prisoners, often children and twins, were subjected to injections, mutilations, and surgeries without anesthesia, all in the name of pseudoscientific racial theories. Many died in agony, while survivors were left with permanent physical and psychological scars. These experiments remain some of the most grotesque examples of medical abuse in human history. Another cruel form of torture was the deliberate exposure to unbearable conditions. Prisoners were left outside in freezing temperatures without proper clothing, beaten mercilessly for the slightest perceived offense, or forced into exhausting labor that led to collapse and death. In many cases, guards devised humiliating punishments to instill fear, ensuring that resistance or defiance was nearly impossible. The methods of torture in Auschwitz were not random acts of cruelty but part of a calculated system of oppression and dehumanization. Each act of brutality served the Nazis’ ultimate goal: to eradicate an entire people by destroying their will to live before their bodies were exterminated. Remembering these horrors is essential to ensuring that such atrocities are never repeated.

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We live in an open air asylum.

[UltraBudgie]

We live in an open air asylum.

The older I get the more I empathize with Wonko the Sane and pine for Outside of the Asylum.

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The older I get the more I empathize with Wonko the Sane and pine for Outside of the Asylum.

My reply was something I often say. I was even going to use it as my signature at one point. I only have to look at the barbarism and cruelty inflicted on others by humans over the millennia.

It's all still here, hidden beneath a facade of modernity, respectability and projection.

[andy06shake]

I wanted to say man's inhumanity to man but men women and children were included . I always retained one bullet for myself because I was resigned to never be taken alive.
 

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The problem is that we choose not to learn from history and tend to repeat it.

"What a piece of work is a man!
How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!
In form and moving how express and admirable!
In action how like an angel,
In apprehension how like a god!
The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!"

[UltraBudgie]

I wanted to say man's inhumanity to man but men women and children were included . I always retained one bullet for myself because I was resigned to never be taken alive.
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From the main page: "History - A forum for historical events and their potential hidden narratives."

So what's the potentially hidden narrative?

I mean, I get why you wouldn't want to put it in: "Propaganda Mill - Analyze and discuss propaganda and misinformation in media."

Maybe: "Conspiracies In Religions - Examine hidden influences, power structures, and secrets within global religions."

For the burnt offering thing?

[UltraBudgie]

Oh dear I fear I have broken this thread. There's really no way to respond other than by rephrasing a song lyric:

"God plays dead, beer's rotten bread, sane's the most crazy..."

[quintessentone]

The responsibility rests with us.

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"“There are often competing voices in our head about what we should do when we’re in tricky situations,” Birney told PsyPost. “I think the takeaway from this is that it is worth stopping to reflect on our actions – not just our behaviours, but the pull we felt to act as we’ve done.”"

New psychology research adds another twist to Stanley Milgram's famous obedience findings

"To explain these findings, Milgram concluded that, in the face of authority, people enter a distinct ‘agentic state’. He argued that this renders them so focused on doing the bidding of the authority that they lose awareness of the consequences of their actions."

Engaged followership and toxic science: Exploring the effect of prototypicality on willingness to follow harmful experimental instructions - Birney - 2023 - British Journal of Social Psychology - Wiley Online Library

[Bootless]

I wanted to say man's inhumanity to man but men women and children were included . I always retained one bullet for myself because I was resigned to never be taken alive.

Makes a person wonder; how many of the guards were suddenly hit with the realization "Holy shit!!! I am a monster", then used the one bullet?

Seems to me that as long as a person thinks he's on the winning side he would prefer to be the guard rather than the prisoner.

So a filthy sub-human* commie soldier sees that he's in a losing battle against a pitiless invader: would he rather use the one bullet, or would he prefer high explosives attached to a dead man switch?

*see what I did there?

[Maxmars]

The images all hurt so much...

They evoke visceral revulsion in some, they inspire a haunting to others...

The point, humans have not come so far as to boast our civilization has left all this behind.

Wounds may heal... the scars remind us all not to do that again.