----- Original Message ----- From: "Warren Ockrassa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons
So, the Holocaust would have been ethical if Germany had won?
It was ethical to the Nazis at the time it was taking place. Just as it was ethical for slavery to be practiced, here and elsewhere, for a long time, just as it was ethical for the original tribe of Israel to, occasionally, utterly murder rivaling peoples, even to the point that a psalm was written singing of the joys of dashing out the brains of enemies' children against stones.
From my point of view today, and I suspect from yours and most others', those actions are all reprehensible. But to no small degree I suspect that's because we're living in a world and a time that affords us the luxury of extending the epithet "human" to *all* people, even those we oppose or who oppose us.
It is indeed far easier to do that when one isn't risking one's childrens'
lives in doing so....which makes
Did you mean to finish the sentence? (This is the first time I remember the lost thought being in the middle of a paragraph.)
That is a valid point. I would point
out that the arguement had been made thousands of years ago....it's just that even people who state that's their source of ethics find ways to weasel around it. The way I like to look at the Old Testiment is as a journey of a people from a polytheistic religion where every tribe had their totom god and Yahwah was just the god of their tribe to where Yahwah was the God of all, and Israel had a special responsibility.
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