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To: nihil who wrote (74750)	2/20/2000 7:39:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

<<Nazis believed on their immortal souls that they as Nazis were right. They were willing to kill 6 billion on the bet that they were right and otherwise roast in hell. Soviet communists believed that they were correct in boosting the proletariat. They were willing to bet their immortal souls (many of them are Russian Orthodox or Muslim or Jewish once again) that killing 18 billionwas okay) or otherwise roast in hell.>> Methinks you have your millions and billions mixed up or the Earth would be devoid of people. No big deal, easy to do when toking Maui Wowie. One million or six million, it still was ugly. But I can't figure out why the number keeps climbing. What I want to say is I wonder about the 6 million figure. It's this revisionist idea in history. After WWII the figure was around 1 million killed by the Nazis. Worked up and sat at 1.5 million for a long time. Lately it's jumped to 2, 3, 4, 5 and now 6 million. It seems, and in not only this, that everyone takes a figure and hedges it a bit and it becomes a new standard.

To: nihil who wrote (74750)	2/21/2000 8:04:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

There is no line to step over. Each acts according to his preferences. Your preference is for tolerance, and you would be willing to shoot people to enforce it. The Nazis preference was for the hegemony of the "Aryan race", and they were willing to shoot people to enforce that. They did not need to justify it by reference to some ultimate moral ground, and there were no overarching principles by which they could be criticized......