I generally don’t like “taboo this word” but you could make a good case for tabooing “people” here.
If by “people”, DanielC meant “entities which have rights and whose rights deserve to be respected”, then of course Hitler thought he wasn’t killing people, but that is just vacuously true.
I generally don’t like “taboo this word” but you could make a good case for tabooing “people” here.
If by “people”, DanielC meant “entities which have rights and whose rights deserve to be respected”, then of course Hitler thought he wasn’t killing people, but that is just vacuously true.
That assumes that Hitler believed in the principle of respecting rights in the first place. I don’t think that’s true.