Harris argues that the Nazi Holocaust and the Nazi euthanasia program (sterilizing and killing people deemed mentally defective) exemplify the consequences of rejecting the principle of universal human equality, making it a dangerous precedent that might justify maintaining speciesism as a safeguard.
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“The Nazis prior to the Holocaust in full swing just deciding, okay, well, it's time to sterilize all of these you know, mental defectives and you know, now that we're sterilizing them, why why don't we just start killing them en masse because these aren't lives worth living.”
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