The science, they felt, was self evident. No doubts existed in their minds. Nor were there any outstanding moral questions: Jews (for Nazis), and humans outright (Dennett, Dawkins, et al) were nothing of intrinsic worth. Jews were subhuman (Untermenschen) and this lot has discarded the notion of human worth outright:
A video of the workshop shows Dennett complaining that a few—but only a
few!—contemporary philosophers have stubbornly refused to incorporate
the naturalistic conclusions of science into their philosophizing,
continuing to play around with outmoded ideas like morality and
sometimes even the soul.
Or Francis Crick’s famous:
“ ‘You,’ your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions,
your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than
the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated
molecules. Who you are is nothing but a pack of neurons.”
What is NOT possible within such a worldview? Dennett calls us “moist robots”. Ponder this: do we feel empathy or remorse when we send an old toaster to the dumpster? Only if we worry about trash. Does it send our moral sense tingling when an old car is crushed for scrap? Or an old computer disassembled for scrap parts?
Why would vivisection on humans be wrong on their account? We are, after all, nothing but machines, and morality an artifact of evolution. Humans have no innate dignity, no innate rights.
Let me reframe this: they are not Nazis. Nazis at least respected Germans, and Nordic peoples generally. They are WORSE than the Nazis, by far.
Quite clearly, what they envision–all being radical leftists–is a society in which all humans but an aristocratic, technocratic elite (among which, of course, they will be priests) will be made equal by some combination of force and deception, and live out their meaningless lives under the benign protection of their betters.
I will note in this regard that even people who, in PRINCIPLE, view all humans as meaningless and temporary assemblages of matter cannot help but view THEMSELVES as somehow different. This is why they are crusading for this insane idea.
We have known for the better part of 50 years that their “common sense” materialism does not best fit the data. It is a false idea. Everything, clearly, is interconnected in ways we can MEASURE. No “spookiness” is required.
For instance, Ganzfeld experiments have consistently yielded results of such statistical significance that they would EASILY qualify any drug for sale in the United States. So too have experience on psychokinesis. (You can read about these things in Dean Radin’s “The Conscious Universe” ; I will note, as well, that you cannot trust sites like CSICOP and SkepDic, for one simple reason: THEY LIE. They lie like motherfuckers. They like true pieces of shit who derive sadistic pleasure from the looks they see on peoples faces when they tell them their brother is dead, when he isn’t. I say this from considerable experience with them. They only value science which conforms to their emotional needs.)
To put it simply, their view of the world is plainly based on EMPIRICALLY WRONG foundations, and their conclusions simply dreadful, and unnecessarily so.
Much of our academic elite has been overtaken by an evil ideology, which does not best explain the world, and which permits the commission of acts we don’t even want to begin to imagine, but for which Dr. Mengele was only the start).