Instrumental reason’s slaughter continued after the Holocaust on the same scale.

Evidence

Germany implemented the ‘final solution’ of its Jewish Problem’ as a textbook exercise in instrumental reasoning. Humanity briefly shuddered when it could no longer avert its gaze from what had happened, when the photographs taken by the killers themselves began to circulate, and when the pitiful survivors re-emerged into the light. But in the end, it made no difference. The same logic, the same cold and ruthless application of calculating reason, slaughtered at least as many people during the next twenty years as had falled victim to the technicians of the thousand-year Reich. We have learned nothing. Civilization is as imperilled today as it was then. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 334

Categorization

• QUESTION: Weizenbaum’s claim that instrumental logic killed as many in the next twenty years as the Holocaust invites verification and specificity on what figures he means.
• XREF: connects to: The Holocaust succeeded partly through victims’ rational actions. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 386

Related

• The Holocaust succeeded partly through victims’ rational actions. (similarity 0.83)
• The Holocaust was rational social management in scientific dress (similarity 0.80)
• The Holocaust combined long-festering social tensions with the rational instruments modernity created (similarity 0.79)
• The Holocaust question must keep its full weight and horror (similarity 0.78)
• Victims’ rational survival choices can become tools of their own destruction (similarity 0.78)
• No scientific method can adjudicate moral responsibility for the Holocaust. (similarity 0.78)
• The atomic bombings were products of rational problem-solving mentality (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The Holocaust succeeded partly through victims’ rational actions. #corroborates (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 386