I take your point...if your point is ‘we gotta start somewhere’. Nontheless, the use of ‘obviously’ is problematic and misleading. To whom is it obvious? To you? Or perhaps you and your friends, or you and other people on the internet who tend to think in the same way as you and with whom you generally agree? Don’t get me wrong, I have a very clear idea of what I think is crap (and I strongly suspect it’d be similar to yours) and I’m just as keen to impose my vision of the ‘uncrap’ on the world as the next person. However, I can’t help but be troubled by the thought that the mass murder of jews, gypsies, the mentally retarted and homosexuals was precipitated by the fact that Hitler et al thought it was ‘obvious’ that they were crap and needed fixing.
I take your point...if your point is ‘we gotta start somewhere’. Nontheless, the use of ‘obviously’ is problematic and misleading. To whom is it obvious? To you? Or perhaps you and your friends, or you and other people on the internet who tend to think in the same way as you and with whom you generally agree? Don’t get me wrong, I have a very clear idea of what I think is crap (and I strongly suspect it’d be similar to yours) and I’m just as keen to impose my vision of the ‘uncrap’ on the world as the next person. However, I can’t help but be troubled by the thought that the mass murder of jews, gypsies, the mentally retarted and homosexuals was precipitated by the fact that Hitler et al thought it was ‘obvious’ that they were crap and needed fixing.