Germar Rudolf, Resistance Is Obligatory (2012; PDF-Datei

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORY
ceal something extraordinary interesting and important. Then no truly
passionate scientist can resist anymore.
2. Urge for Truth and Human Dignity
Since highest German courts have decreed that there can be a conflict
between the urge to learn the truth and human dignity, a conflict
which I will consider later in greater detail, I want to examine first what
human dignity actually is. We humans ascribe a higher value to ourselves
than to other living creatures, and consequently we often treat
them in a less than noble fashion. One reason for this certainly is our
anthropocentric worldview, which is to say that we consider our own
species to be special precisely because it is our own. The matter is not
quite that simple, though, as there is a categorical difference between
humans and all other life forms known to us so far. The philosopher
Karl Raimund Popper described this difference as follows: 67
“the main difference between Einstein and an amoeba […] is that
Einstein consciously seeks for error elimination. He tries to kill his
theories: he is consciously critical of his theories which, for this reason,
he tries to formulate sharply rather than vaguely. But the
amoeba cannot be critical because it cannot face its hypotheses:
they are part of it. (Only objective knowledge is criticizable. Subjective
knowledge becomes criticizable when we say what we think; and
even more so when we write it down, or print it.)”
At another place Popper says: 68
“Subjective knowledge is not subject to criticism. Of course it
can be changed by various means – for example, by eliminating
(killing) of the carrier of the subjective knowledge or disposition in
question. Knowledge in the subjective sense may grow or achieve
better adjustments by the Darwinian method of mutation and elimination
of the organism. As opposed to this, objective knowledge can
change and grow by the elimination (killing) of the linguistically
formulated conjecture: the ‘carrier’ of the knowledge can survive –
he can, if he is a self-critical person, even eliminate his own conjecture.
67 Karl Popper, Objective Knowledge, 4th ed., Claredon Press, Oxford 1979, pp. 24f.
68 Ibid., p. 66.
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