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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg J Kuperberg)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Laws Nobody Obeys ARE NEEDED
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Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 20:30:07 EST
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> > Again, we are ignoring the number.  The difference is not the kind of evil,
> > but the scale.  The Germans gassed 10 million.  I doubt that the Japanese
> > murdered even 500,000 P.O.W.'s.
> > ---
> > 			Greg Kuperberg
> 
> Oh, well, only 500,000, and they were just P.O.W.'s.  Well, then, that's
> okay.  Just because the Germans killed 10 million people (by the way
> they weren't all gassed but that's a different issue and much too gory
> to go into here), doesn't mean it's o.k. for the Japanese or anyone else
> to kill less.
> 
> 	Marie desJardins
> 	marie@harvard

You took my article out of context.  I was replying to someone who
compared Japan with Nazi Germany.  Sure, what the Japanese did in WW II was
atrocious, but the Germans are incomparable.
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			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk