Comments by "Walter Burton" (@WalterBurton) on "Military History Visualized" channel.

  1. "The situation at this point became rather complicated." I hope that the word you were actually looking for was "comical."
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  2. "Rather fatalistic viewpoint" is not an argument. Neither is "Sh*t happens." Lame rebuttal to Levy.
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  3. 1: Egomania. 2: Doesn't require being "thoughtful" (this implies an unnecessary amount of moral rumination); only requires intelligence. And, well, see #1. 3: Who gives a shit?
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  4.  @timothyodering6299  : You give humans far too much credit. The evidence suggests that they're easily led into catastrophe. Charisma and intelligence is all that's required to separate a man from men. No wisdom, no particularly special attributes. No, no. Your romanticism blinds you to reality. Most of these pompous windbags contribute nothing to society. Many of them steal from society. And many of them make wars in service of their ego. Check your infatuation with Hitler---because that's exactly what it is, infatuation. Regardless of what you think of the "Great Man" theory of history, there's literally no evidence to suggest that Hitler was great in any measure excepting opportunity. He was a charlatan. He contributed nothing positive to civilization.
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  5. Sophomoric stab at teaching critical thinking. Keep trying though, please. Seriously. I suspect the bit of ego that's still standing in your way is not too big. Flush that, get some true humility, revisit the corpus of informal fallacies, and have another go!
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  6. Levy says the plan was reasonable only * IF * you accept the laughably faulty premises on which it was based. Come on, dude. Tighten up.
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