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To: ayn rand who wrote (23771)	10/22/2009 8:21:33 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71426

What a stupid and ignorant piece of writing. Well, it's my fault for having bothered to read it if I find myself stultified by reading it. As to the guillotine, of which it says "During the French Revolution 300,000 people such as these lost their heads. Perhaps this time it will be 3 million." The truth is: The Guillotine is quickly adopted. Perhaps the most unusual aspect of the guillotine's history is the sheer speed and scale of its adoption and use. Born out of a discussion in 1789 that had actually considered banning the death penalty, the machine had been used to kill over 15,000 people by the Revolution's close in 1799, despite not being fully invented until the middle of 1792. EDIT: other sources suggest as many as 40,000 people guillotined, but that may include convicted criminals in years following the Revolution. A week's worth of work by the Nazis at Auschwitz would exceed the entire French Revolution, as would some of Stalin's programs. Not the same kind of context, but compare one second after the detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Or the 300,000 killed in the firebombing of Dresden. No, that was what the U. S. Air Force proudly claimed and I learned in AF-ROTC. More like 25,000.