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Posted by D Sherman [72.47.9.228] on Wednesday, December 07, 2011 at 20:06:55 :
In Reply to: Re: Sherman and & Dana: Very good points. posted by dave royal [75.81.249.81] on Wednesday, December 07, 2011 at 17:21:58 :
...is to stop the people who are still doing them today. Very soon now, everyone who committed any atrocity during WWII will be dead. Why beat a dead horse? Every war brings out the evil in people on both sides. Sometimes their commanders stop them and sometimes they encourage them, depending on the morality of the leadership. You can find a gruesome example from every side in any war. I'd rather focus on what living people are doing to others today rather than what long-dead people once did. There are still people committing atrocities every bit as bad as anything Hitler or Hirohito was responsible for. People are still being tortured to death in all kinds of ways, often just for the fun of the onlookers. The only difference is the number of victims is thankfully much fewer.
The other problem I have with demonizing what various countries did in past wars is that I don't know what we're expected to do about it today. Refuse to do business with them? Nuke them 'till they glow? Write bad things about them all over the Internet? And what are the people of those former enemy countries, if the country even still exists, supposed to do to earn our forgiveness? Kill themselves? Give us all their money? Become our slaves? Write bad things about themselves all over the Internet? Whenever somebody has a problem with me, I like to know what they want me to do about it. If there's nothing I can do to make it right, what's the point? I know I wouldn't want to have to make up for everything any white American ever did to an Indian.
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