Comments on: Evil and Nazis

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:03:00 +0000

Nah, you’re not violating Godwin’s Law–you’re confirming it.

By: chutney

chutney — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 04:12:31 +0000

I’ll amend my original statement: Killing Nazis in open combat following the Geneva Conventions is good insofar as it speeds the end of the Holocaust and the Nazi regime.

Better?

By: Paul Oakley

Paul Oakley — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:13:59 +0000

Oh yeah, I don’t agree that killing Nazis (at least after we entered the war) was a good thing. Ending the camps and bringing Hitler’s war machine to a halt was the good thing. To claim that killing Nazi’s was good is to suggest that killing 100% of them would have been the best possible outcome of the war. It suggests that we should have had a policy of executing Nazis who became our prisoners of war. It suggests that we should have assassinated everyone who became members of the Nazi Party not because they adhered to its ideology and goals but merely because that was the only path that would allow them to pursue their career. I hope (and yes, trust) you don’t believe that.

By: Paul Oakley

Paul Oakley — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 05:55:41 +0000

Wow! You really are trying to be provocative.

By: chutney

chutney — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:23:39 +0000

Sticking to the example of WW2, there was the case of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a minister who was part of a failed plot to assassinate Hitler. But I don’t think an assassination would have stopped the Holocaust. Slowed it, perhaps, but not stopped it.

By: Eve

Eve — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:54:33 +0000

Genocide is happening in today’s world. Are you suggesting that instead of picketing and protesting to get the US or UN to send in forces to stop the genocide, that UUs should themselves assassinate those who commit genocide?