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Babette Albin's avatar

Your topics are well-chosen and decidedly worth the effort (on yours as a thoughtful chaplain and on the readers'). Thanks you for openly sharing the process. Not everything fits neatly into a package, and your explodes with incongruities. This is not a criticism. In fact, you let the quotes speak for themselves. Einstein refers to "the Negro problem" and I immediately considered "the Jewish problem", and the "final solution". It always troubled me that Germany was so far advanced in so many intellectual and artistic endeavors and somehow managed to "industrialize" genocide.

My real fears are not with the military industrial complex, which are of immediate concern, but of the "medical" (or scientific) industrial complex, which holds the possibility of great good, and even greater harm! - You can quote me. BA

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Not sure this statement you made has any merit: " With only a few of the weapons available to the nuclear powers of today could kill more people in minutes than all the Jews killed by the Nazis killed in the Holocaust."

I am still making my way through the rest of your post, but I want to bring this to your attention.

It's a hypothetical which cannot be proven, nor does it enhance your position. One death is too many, so it's not necessary to quantify which is more heinous.

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