----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 7:05 PM Subject: Re: Br!n: Re: more neocons
> Dan Minette wrote: > > ----- 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 a good basis for understanding the progress we've made in stopping various immoral actions (e.g. slavery). Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
