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yes not at all
Debate Score:41
Arguments:33
Total Votes:43
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would you respect hitler for fighting for what he believes in?

yes

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I respect how he was able to do all those horrible deeds with a whole nations support. How one can advertise that and captivate a nation is baffling. But my respect for him is twisted, the way I respect a formidable enemy. To not respect him would be almost like forgetting how close he was to annihilating jews gypsies gays etc and that is no favour to those people.

Side: yes
1 point

I like anyone who follows their views.

The only reason i disrespect him is because of his Jewish Genocide.

Side: yes

Yes. He was a great leader. He hated the jews and had the courage to massacre the jews. He convinced the army to attack europe and russia. He wasn't afraid to do so and stood up to the world and fought for his beliefs. Most people aren't as brave or as great at leading as he is.

Side: yes
1 point

I respect him. He did kill alot of people but he fought for what he belived in. Any man who dose that, no matter the cause, i give them some respect.

Side: yes
0 points

Yes I would because he was big on Christianity..........................................

Side: yes
vandebater(444) Disputed
1 point

no he was actually anti religion........... plus even if he did use christianity why would you respect someone who promoted religion as a way to kill people, the opposite intentions of religion. He twisted and used YOUR religion as a way to kill millions....

Of course that would be IF he was a big christian supporter which he wasn't he was atheist.

Side: not at all
TMadden38(187) Disputed
0 points

He only killed the Jews. He was nice to Christians.............................................

Side: yes
Jungelson(3959) Disputed
1 point

Yes, however he wasn't so big on Jews, Russians, Polish people, Homosexuals, Travelers, communists and many more people. And if you (being a christian i guess) can think only of your self, then i see little hope of you making it in to your so called heaven. Respect is the wrong word anyway. So you respect Hitler because he liked Christians. You are messed up!

Side: not at all
3 points

I don't respect people for fighting for what they believe in. I can understand their position, but my respect is hard to earn.

Now, given respect, I suppose, depends on who's giving the respect.

For me, respect is earned by having sound reasoning. It doesn't matter what you believe in, if you can verbally defend it without sounding irrational... I can respect you.

Side: not at all
cod-pownage(126) Disputed
1 point

you dont respect him yet you have a swastika? hypocrite

The minimum length for an argument is 50 characters. The purpose of this restriction is to cut down on the amount of dumb jokes, so we can keep the quality of debate and discourse as high as possible.

Side: yes
ThePyg(6738) Disputed
1 point

Because portrayal of the swastika = respect hitler...

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Side: not at all

Hitler should have never started killing Jews indiscriminately. If he had started killing stupid indiscriminately, then I would have supported him ;)

Side: not at all
2 points

I had someone recently tell me, that they respect hitler for fighting for what he believed in. They also went along to say hitler never personally murdered nyome. He just had others do it for him. In the end it boiled down to him being a respectable man. I completely disagreed. Which brought me here today to see others views on this topic

Side: not at all
Becker11(12) Disputed
1 point

I respect the fact that he stood up for what he believed in. But he went to far. Mad with power. A dictator. There's a fine line between standing up for something and executing innocent people. When that line is crossed, u obviously are not standing up fOr what you believe in to help the good of mankind

Side: yes
2 points

There are really two sides here. Yes, Hitler was a man who was determined to reach his goal. He was intelligent, and that asset helped him to gain supporters. However, just because he knew what he wanted, doesn't mean that what he wanted was good.

He killed thousands upon thousands of people, just because of their religious beliefs, or how they looked. ( Not only Jewish people, but handicap, Africans and more were slain as well)

In all I really don't admire him, even if he was determined. When you've taken the lives of so many young individuals its really hard to say something positive.

Side: not at all
2 points

No ones saying admire him, but understand the power he had. You need to understand how good of a speaker and planner he was to understand the holocaust. In other words, to educate yourself of these horrors don't admire, but respect his power and understand the extent of what he did.

Side: not at all

I don't generally respect what he believed in, and I think that violence is almost never the best possible course of action. Not in his situation, to be sure. So I cant respect large portions of his cause and can't condone his methods.

I think a certain amount of respect is always owed to a dangerous enemy, but it isn't respect born of admiration. It's respect with a different connotation, like I stayed a

"respectful" distance from the man standing in the dark with a bloody knife in his hand kind of respect.

That being said I don't condemn Hitler any more or less than I do any other genocidal maniac who ever made a serious attempt at turning his violent dream into reality. In this regard their intentions, genocide and war, are equally contemptuous, and I don't feel it would be fair to penalize Hitler further simply because he was more successful.

Side: not at all
2 points

the respect you talk about is the exact context in which we must revere hitler.

Side: yes
2 points

To me, fighting over beliefs is usually a bad thing, and I feel there's really only a couple of beliefs actually worth fighting for: freedom and liberty. Well, maybe they're ideals more than beliefs, but if you're not fighting for these, then you're probably fighting for the wrong reasons.

As Hitler was quite obviously not fighting for either of these, I have a hard time mustering any respect for his actions.

Side: not at all
1 point

There was no reason to respect him . He didnt respect others , so he didnt deserve anything good in return . Sure he believed in it , but that doesnt make it okay to kill people .

Side: not at all

clearly what he wanted did not let the germans live happily... achieving something desirous is fine even awesome but to do this , prevailing horror makes you be called ' psycho'...

Side: not at all
1 point

Hitler was a very powerful man yes , a leader. He fought for what he believed in, yes. But my argument for this is simple. Leaders are supposed to as their responsibility fight for what the "majority" believe in, and as far as I know the majority of Germany at the time, weren't actually fighting for what he believed in, as they were either fearful of him, or simply obeying the laws of the present leader, which does not necessarily suggest the majority believed in what they were fighting for. So in some small respects yes, he did fight for what he believed in, but he gains no respect because no one else believed in it.

Side: not at all