SURE, BUT WERE THEY WRONG? (FALSE?) by Daniel Gurpide I would argue that German

SURE, BUT WERE THEY WRONG? (FALSE?)

by Daniel Gurpide

I would argue that German morality has historically led to catastrophic political decisions:

-Luther, the German Reformation and the subsequent European wars of religion.

-Kant, German Idealism, and Pan-Germanism (the wars for the unification of Germany, I & II World Wars).

-Modern secular German religion, i.e: National-Masochism (the refugee crisis of 2015, Brexit and the subsequent collapse of the EU maybe sometime in the near future if present trends continue?)

History is obviously not monocausal, but German hyper-morality was the necessary, if not sufficient, condition for the development of these historical events.

“Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus” (Let justice be done, though the world perishes) was Kant’s motto.

One cannot conduct politics with categorical imperatives. Germany ends up always irritating everyone: Brits, Americans, Scandinavians, Dutch, French, Italian, Poles, Russians, etc. It is no coincidence.