Utilitarian Morals and Preventing WW2

Germany's population in 1919:

>60,898,584

WW2 casualties:

>Over 60 million people, not including war-related disease and famine. 80 million if the latter are included.

So from an utilitarian perspective it would have been morally right to genocide the entirety of Germany's population to prevent ww2.

Let that sink in.

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P.S.: That is assuming you have knowledge that Germany will cause a world war with 60+ million casualties, and that ww2 wouldn't have happened without Germany.

That's a pretty stupid assumption, given that Japan started the second Sino-Japanese war without any prompting whatsoever from Germany, and that's responsible for a good 35 million or so deaths right there. More if you start taking out the Pacific war in its entirety which isn't likely to develop without a Sino-Japanese war.

Genociding the entirety of Germany's population would have been right regardless of anything.

Thats why most people arent utilitarian, its a retarded ideology.

But i still say genocide all germans

nigga are you forgetting Japan's parallel war that claimed a similar amount of lives?

>Thats why most people arent utilitarian

Most people are utilitarian.

If you ask them why ww2 was bad, they'll replay "because 60 million and mass destruction", not "because of extreme individual suffering and industrialized genocide by Germany".

>chink "lives"

Ftfy

Oh boy more memetic germanophobia from Veeky Forums
will someone post the damn video already so we can all laugh at how "funny and creative" it is?
>HOWDY GERMANIC SERVANTS

Calm down, Hans.

I was just asking an interesting moral question: Killing (somewhat guilty) people to prevent a loss of life of an greater number of innocent people.

>people
>innocent

Goddamn I hate Wehraboos, always trying to weasel out of shit Germany did.

>Recognizing the fact that Germany had little to do with the Pacific War makes you a Wehraboo
If you wanted to look stupid, you've succeeded

If we're arguing utilitarian: wouldn't it have been more reasonable to simply submit to Hitler's demands? He only wanted living space in the East and it's not like anything worthwhile ever came out of those countries.

I'm sure if you could pick any 60 million people to have killed, you could allow for any country you desire to win that war.

>submitting to evil
>utilitarian

pick one and only one

???

Hans, just leave

you are incapable of intelligent conversation

The point is: if you're arguing that multiple million people die anyway you might as well give preference to the types of people who actually contribute something to the world.

Face it: without Germany, most of Europe would be a third world shithole.

>Face it: without Germany, most of Europe would be a third world shithole.

Certainly. See:

Just look at Europe today. Southern- and Eastern Europe can't build functional states for shit. Northern Europe is irrelevant. Without Germany there is nothing left.

Of course my man! You are really smart as a German!

Must be my German heritage.

It's good that you finally see reason though.

Just kill hitler you retard. Himmler ane goring too while youre at it and goebbels as bonus.

Yay no wwii

>Face it: without Germany, Roman Empire would still exist
fix'd

Germany should've been balkanized after WWI

rig the game so the tri-party powers win ww1. germany is never screwed over by the treaty of versaille and the resulting power vacuum/collapse of the government wont lead to nazim but just democracy. Russia wont have a serious revolt or if they do it wont be as bad and because the communists dont have the same motivation from russia getting super fucked up the communists never take power. japan never goes full retard in asia as a result of getting left out of versaille among other things.

This must be a bait.

You are morally obligated to choose the option, out of all possible alternatives, that maximizes the balance of pleasure over pain, you fucking downy.

This is all assuming that life is a good thing, procreation is (morally) permissible and that a universe without (sentient) life wouldn't be the best possible one.

Well, from Nazi perspective there is morally right and need to genocide the entirety of any population even the own ones to prevent anything that fears and that´s where this ficitional would lead. It´s just a technical problem and hard to organize in front of the eyes of everyone

kek'd

this. pic related, the French knew their politics

>1919: 60mn dead
>1945: 80mn dead
That leaves you 26 years for 20mn people NOT to die for reasons like war or pandemics.

Surely, all those empty German lands in 1919 will be uninteresting for the surrounding nations. And most likely they would not engage in territorial squabbles about said lands.

Not to mention all the shenanigans that other nations could come up with in this power vacuum after genociding the Germans.

(Speculating here), but Germany was one of the few nations to hold diplomatic relations towards the Soviets. With them gone, you would probably see some earlier East-West division, with the big bad guys not East of France, but East of Poland. With less Soviet allies, there would be a higher chance of Western intervention, I guess.

Can you really guarantee that no one dies for petty reasons like the ones I mentioned in these 26 years between the wars? I really don't think so.

Anyway, good luck playing God and "fixing" the world this way. A shorter period of time is probably better suited for utilitarian purposes and thought plays.

yeah, I said you'd have to make a few assumptions

but the mere fact that genociding an entire nation could be morally right is quite striking

Here's a map of what Europe could look like also.

What ugly borders

>but the mere fact that genociding an entire nation could be morally right is quite striking
Welcome to the NSDAP, user.

but the Jews didn't start any world wars, or any wars for that matter

You forgot one other important fact...

Without Germany, there would have been no Manhattan project (whether or not you are killing the parents of the German physicists who left Germany)

Without the Manhattan project Russia would have BTFO the rest of Europe and caused as just as many casualties.

Then you'd have to genocide both Germany and the Soviet Union.

How do you know Hitler isn't a time traveler that saved us from the Zionist Intergalactic War that claimed 6 trillion lives?

>mfw utilitarianism is mentioned around me
you some kinda idiot, OP?

>Germans == Germanic, the thread.

>Germans
>solved their problems by killing en mass and set entire societies back
>Germanic Tribes
>solved their problems by killing en mass and set entire societies back.
>from the same region


Fritz, Pls

bamp

>So from an utilitarian perspective it would have been morally right to genocide the entirety of Germany's population to prevent ww2.
I'm sure that would be the end of it and solve everything forever

>evil
you can't just label something evil because you don't like it

>the third Reich wasn't evil

wew lad

The Eternal Anglo's thirst for Aryan blood never ceases.