German Cannibal Convicted of Manslaughter
On Friday, a German court convicted Armin Meiwes, a.k.a. the German cannibal of manslaughter for the consensual killing and “dismemberment” of a man he met on the Internet.
CNN’s Walter Rodgers said: “Most Germans are aghast yet fascinated at the idea of a cannibal in their midst. This is not supposed to happen in a tidy, democratically ordered German society. And yet it did.”
The Holocaust happened in a tidy, democratically ordered German society, too, didn’t it? The premise of democracy is mob rule and submission to the mob; the premise of socialism is self-sacrifice to the collective. Should we really be surprised when two people sexualize those premises, taking them a little too literally?
For more backgound, see my previous post.
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