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Flame » in reply to re: Certainly: genocide.

I see.
Mary Anne — (archived)

Then why didn't Hitler win? After all, the more genocidal the antagonist, the more successful.

The object of the Hiroshima bombing, in case you have forgotten, or more likely, in case you have never known, was to reduce the number of casualties attendant upon an invasion of the Japanese home islands. The calculations made were of staggering numbers, not only of American soldiers, but of Japanese soldiers and civilians. The true effect of the atomic bomb on a population center was not known. When no reply was heard from the Japanese government, Nagasaki was bombed.

It was a horrible thing. It was not genocidal. It was not a deliberate, systematic mass murder committed person to person with malice. There were no contests to see who could reach 100 personal kills first.

You advocate placing everyone who espouses a particular religion in a box labelled "Enemy. Please incinerate". You are a religious bigot. You give meaning to your fear by hating a huge group of people to the extent that you think exposing children -- children -- to continuing violence is fair and just. You are cut of exactly the same cloth as the fanatical members of the religion you vilify. Only the color of the cloth is different.

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