Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site talcott.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!wjh12!talcott!gjk From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg J Kuperberg) Newsgroups: net.legal,net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Re: Laws Nobody Obeys ARE NEEDED Message-ID: <151@talcott.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 20:30:07 EST Article-I.D.: talcott.151 Posted: Fri Nov 30 20:30:07 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 05:37:43 EST References: <1269@eosp1.UUCP> <1013@cca.UUCP> <143@talcott.UUCP> <180@harvard.ARPA> Organization: Harvard Lines: 21 Xref: godot net.legal:831 net.politics:3364 > > 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. --- Greg Kuperberg harvard!talcott!gjk