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To: Yorikke who wrote (215)	9/28/1998 7:50:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) of 276

MNMuench, Since we are violent and have agreed to sechew violence then for some the outlet is body surfing and for some it is SI. One fine day they will make attachments to computers that will allow weapon play via remote tele operation. the weapon can be like doom totally vicarious, but what about a shock through the joystick? Or through the brain. the concept is old in science fiction where a myriad games have been put forth that have a lethal option. Will people play? Only if they can grow in the group scene. In the old old days the Alpha male would kill/cow all challengers and enjoy priority mating privileges. In a remote setting what would be the reward mechanism? Who would stop cheats who play, lose and are killed on the screen but have arranged to not die in the flesh? They would have to disappear and come back on as another persona. Discos like club 54 are the primitive arena brought forward to this era and the prize is whatever dolly/donny you can take home that night. Risky warring behaviour is translated to strutting like the grouse Leks. What is the surfer reward? special surfer slaves? like Music groupies and racer chasers in skiing? Is the ultimate success one who plays that game and mates? What of those who think and make news stuff, do they lose? are we breeding mediocres by the huge rewards for sport/music/disco behaviours? There are those who toady by helping others. The same moral behaviour can be a messiah complex. You save a person who then is in thrall to you lest you turn them out to be killed. (Yes there were people who saved Jewish women and who then enslaved them sexually under fear of exposure). Does altruism exist? Or is there always a motive no matter how diffused if only the tribute paid in worhsipful appreciation. What about saving a dog who then bites you?, can you them kill the dog? I recall the fable of the tortoise and the scorpion who were stranded on an island and the tortoise could swim to land only if he took the direct route and his eyes were too low to see shore and the scorpion offered to ride his back and use his high stalked eyes to navigate. The tortoise protested "you will sting me", "no" said the scorpion, "as then we would both die" This sounde viable to the tortoise and they set out. Half way across the scorpion mortally stung the tortoise, and as they sank the tortoise gasped "why?", "you knew what I was before we started, it is my nature" said the scorpion. In the same sense I would look long and hard at any rescue of any nazi. Is he/she a true nazi who has only suspended his/her ways for venal purposes(like do not hang me) or was he/she forced into a role due to circumstances and acted like a gear in a machine? I am so remote from that era that I would like to use the judgement of the nazi hunters and not my own. I suspect they will sift those people and find those who were creative killers and those that performed under direct threat of their own death. Remember in the nazi and soviet armies they had battle police or MPs as we call them who would shoot people who did not carry out orders. As you know there are many people who have not been shot by firing squads as all the soldiers subtly shifted their aim to miss the person when they fired. (in addition to the single blank supposedly in 1 rifle) So extreme pressure to perform bad acts was placed on the low ranking soldiers and they often did them. Are they war criminals? or just saving their skin? You can say if they all protest all together then the act will not be done. Well it worked for Yeltsin. What was the policy of the Nuremberg trials? Did they look for a level of authority where you authored criminal acts and let the low echelons escape? I know they selected certain prison guards for execution, were other guards spared as they often tried to spare people even as they took them to the killing chambers? Were all the concentration camp guards and personnel killed? I know those the russians caught were killed, but they also killed those who helped jews, so they may have just killed in toto. I read that many German soldiers triued to be captured by the west even if they were cooks as they feared death from the Russians. Bill

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