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From: larry@utcsstat.UUCP
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Subject: War Criminals
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 13:18:09 EST
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    Some comments re: Fred Williams' article on war criminals.
> 	A person who has been living in our society, or one not too
> different from our's, for 40 years and has not broken the law, has
> proved something. They are not likely to repeat the crime. 


Huh?!?! Quite a few of these people lived 40 years BEFORE committing
the crime:  what did that prove????

> Have they not learned that what was done is not moral? 

Are you serious? Do you honestly think that someone who did these
things thought they were moral WHEN they did them. If so these
people are so deranged that we cannot expect them to look back
with regret.

> Can we imagine the guilt they must live with? 

You seem to have the impression that these people committed one terrible
act in the heat of anger and are spending the rest of their lives
thinking  "what have I done!!!!".  I am not convinced that war
criminals are overwhelmed with guilt.

> 	By the way, similar crimes, (usually to a lesser degree), are
> committed in every war usually by both sides. -Food for thought!

I disagree.  Don't forget, we're not talking about people who were
killed by enemy forces.  These victims were killed by their own
countrymen.


                              Larry Wasserman
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