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Comment by ceejayoz

20 days ago

Similarly, the Holocaust was legal under German law, because the Führer willed it so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrerprinzip

Thus illustrating the potential gap between legal and moral.

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saubeidl  20 days ago

The Führerprinzip mentioned here, by the way, is basically the same argument the conservative supreme court is making right now.

They call it Unitary executive theory in the States, but same idea.

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