In a message dated 8/20/2005 9:41:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> I believe that self-deceit enables this kind of behavior.  The provost of 
> my
> college was a spy during WWII and interviewed Nazi scientists during the
> Nuremburg war trials.  He challenged each incoming class' sense of ethics by
> telling them that virtually none of the scientists who carried out 
> atrocities
> did so in the name of Germany, etc.  They did them in the name of science, 
> to
> advance our knowledge.
> 
This is my point exactly and thank you for saying it better I could. 
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