<< Stalin killed a hell of a lot of people, but he never declared that he wanted to eliminate an entire religious/ethnic group simply because of their religion/ethnicity.
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And I guess the firebombing of German and Japanese cities--called "terror bombing" by those who decided it was a good idea--with the intent and result
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killing hundreds of thousands of women, children, and old people fits in somehow in the moral black and white. I'm guessing we wont see a Jerry
Even those numbers paled against the number of Jews that [censored] had killed simply because they were Jews. >>
I guess if you use [censored] (or Saddam, or Osama) as your moral compass, then you can make just about anything look good.
Don't you think we should stop measuring our actions against those of evil subhuman mutants? Don't you think we should raise the bar a little higher?
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David Kerber wrote:
<< Stalin killed a hell of a lot of people, but he never declared that he wanted to eliminate an entire religious/ethnic group simply because of their religion/ethnicity.
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And I guess the firebombing of German and Japanese cities--called "terror bombing" by those who decided it was a good idea--with the intent and result
of
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killing hundreds of thousands of women, children, and old people fits in somehow in the moral black and white. I'm guessing we wont see a Jerry
Even those numbers paled against the number of Jews that [censored] had killed simply because they were Jews. >>
I guess if you use [censored] (or Saddam, or Osama) as your moral compass, then you can make just about anything look good.
Don't you think we should stop measuring our actions against those of evil subhuman mutants? Don't you think we should raise the bar a little higher?
I would love to, but I was just pointing out that there are degrees of evil. [censored] > Stalin > Saddam, IMO. I'm also not saying that any war is "good" by any standard, but sometimes (rarely) it's the lesser of two (or more) evils.
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