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Everybody knows murder is wrong. So why command against it? |
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 |
Our culture is chockablock with examples of this. We modern westerners
wonder how it could be possible the Germans were capable of
exterminating 11 million people in their mad zeal for racial hygiene.
But the reality is that they gave exactly the same rationales we give
for our extermination of four times as many people since 1973 in the US
alone: by re-defining the victim so as to exempt ourselves from guilt
for violating the commandment. Jews, Poles and Gypsies were
re-classified as untermenschen or even “bacteria” (it was all
very scientifically worded) and their deaths were treated like the
death of cattle—“no innocent human beings were harmed in the making of
this Holocaust”. We do the same trick: reclassifying babies as “fetal
material” (another tidy scientific-sounding euphemism).
The entire article is here
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 24 February 2010 )
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