Yes I know about Goodwin's Law, and I agree with it.

It seems some poeple dont have the common sense to realize that Hitler and Nazis are aberations, they are the exception that proves the rule. Most of the world hated Nazism, including many Germans. So even if Germany had won the war, the majority of the world would have still belived that nazism and the holocuast, etc, were wrong.

one of the interesting things about the holocuast is that ordinary (non-psychopaths) participated in mass killing. They would later explain that they were taught to belive, throgh pervasive mass propaganda, that the Jews were dangerous subhumans who wanted to destroy Western civilization (in much the same way that Amercans are now taught that muslims are intent on destroying us--so Bush can do what he wants).

The point is, the majority of these poeple probably didnt belive that mass slughter was morally ok, but in the case of the Jews they had been convinced they were human, and so killing them justified. This is not an excuse, but it does show that morality is very complicated, and dependent on context, and what pople are told is right and wrong.

Thus, the "top-down" moral approach is actually shown to be flawed by the case of the Nazis. If poeple weren't told what was right and wrong by a central authority (whether its Hitler or Pat Robertson), perhaps such outrages would not occur so frequntly. It were better if poeple were able to think for themselves, to determin their own personal morality, rather than listen to what the mob demands.