ELP journal

From yesterday, we have been discussing about the Shipman reading, which talks about the theory of eugenics and ethical issues on race.
In the reading, the author discusses that the theory of eugenics was originally from the famous theory of Darwin, the evolutionary theory. The theory was brought to the U.S. and Germany and in these two countries, it developed in different ways. In the case of Germany, the theory was used by German (especially Nazis) to discriminate a certain group of people; the Jews.
It was surprising to know how much effort was put by Nazis to make Jews as their enemies, and I found some of the reasoning German gave were rather stupid. For example, Ernst Haeckle, a German scientist who brought Darwinism to Germany, argued that Jesus was not completely Jewish because his father was actually a Roman officer...
I laughed when I read about this but I also thought that I can laugh at such thing because I live in 21st century and also in a democratic country, where every person is given human rights.
In class, Rab posed a question that is the discriminatory act taken by German justifiable because they believed that their action was right.
I would not say it was justifiable, but I do not think that we can ask German to pay compensation for what they did in the past. It is because in the past, not only Germany but also every country has taken inhumane act to some other countries or certain group of people and I think that the reason why we could such cruel action to other people was because we did not know much about each other due to the lack of sufficient information technology or other communicating tools.
I think the best thing a country can do is to admit what it has done in the past and teach its people a true history, so that its people will not make a same mistake in the future.