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grufty jim
grufty jim
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Re: An analogy
Oct 17, 2002, 12:57
Nope. That's not full-circle at all. If a jew assassinated Hitler in 1943 she would be remembered, rightly, as a heroic figure. Had she done it in 1939, then the jury would probably be still out on it - and the holocaust may well not have happened (though anti-semitism wouldn't have "final solution" connotations historically and someone else might have used Jewish society as a scape-goat a few years later - who knows?).

Had that same jew killed Hitler in 1918, say... now then you have a simple case of murder with the jew rightly being condemned for an unprovoked act of violence that took the life of a young man with his whole future ahead of him.

We have neither time-machines, nor accurate precognition, so the question is entirely moot.
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