The inconsistency which we have just
analyzed is dramatic, for it reveals that in certain quarters people have not
perceived the profound malice of Nazism. That is why the door is wide open to ultra-Nazism.
By that we mean a Nazism brought to its supreme stage, made global and inscribed into
practices, laws, institutions and even ethics.
a) People have not understood that this malice does not
reside first in the regime which Nazism characterizes, but rather deep in the
nature of the Nazi ideology. They haven't seen that the essence of Nazism is its
totalitarian nature, that is to say its desire to destroy the Ego, both physically
as well as psychologically. Nazism is haunted by the desire to inflict death.
b) Despite the loud denials of those who are animated by
currents which, after legalizing abortion, are now endeavoring to legalize euthanasia, these currents are objectively inscribed
with the Nazi tradition, and while drinking in its perversion, they go well beyond it. In
effect, to inflict death is not just a "right" that society may exercise on the
life it regards unworthy of living: It is
also a "duty" whose execution the same society must guarantee for those who
desire to "die with dignity" because their
life is not worth living.
Added to the consideration of the right of society to
inflict death on beings whose life isn't worth living, typical of Nazism, is a
consideration typical of liberalism: the right of the individual to "die with
dignity."
c) But in these two scenarios, and beyond the
ideological travesties, the act of inflicting death is covered by law, and its execution
is entrusted to medical personnel. In brief, the law now legitimizes medical murder.
d) For the same reasons, once a state grants parents the
"right" to kill their children, it quickly finishes by granting children the
"right" to kill their parents. Thus, in these different cases, the
"law" is called upon to legitimize the
"medicalization" of murder.
e) This totalitarian alliance between the lie and
violence was implacably denounced by André Frossard: "The liar knows that he
lies, the criminal hides or denies his crime, and the political systems that are the most
diabolically injurious to the human species believe themselves constrained to give a decor
of justice to their ignominies, and to feign a right each time it violates it".
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Cf. André Frossard, Défense du Pape (Paris: Fayard, 1993) 48.
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