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From: muffy@lll-crg.ARPA (Muffy Barkocy)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.politics
Subject: Re: Don Black, Nazis, and the amazing disappearing Holocaust
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Date: Tue, 2-Apr-85 11:37:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  2 11:37:30 1985
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In article <1345@aecom.UUCP> teitz@aecom.UUCP (Eliyahu Teitz) writes:
>
>	I really do not believe what I am reading. Was Hitler wrong? If he had
> won the war, would he be right? How can a man, for any twisted crazy ideal go
> and kill one person, let alone 6,000,000. What right does any person have to 
> kill innocent people. 

Actually, if Hitler had won, he would indeed have been correct.  Not from
*my* point of view, of course, but I would be dead.  In fact, as I recall,
he wanted to kill everyone who didn't believe as he did, so the only people
left alive would be those that agreed with him, or said they did.  Regard-
less of what you may believe, "right" and "wrong" are societally defined, 
they are *not* inborn.  Thus, if everyone in my society thinks as I do, 
then I am right.  If Hitler killed off all the people that didn't think as
he did, his society would have agreed with him, and he would be right.

Certainly, I don't believe that killing even one person is right, but that
is definitely not instinctive.  If the rules change, so does what is
"right."

                                       Muffy