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
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.
The size and power of several used against several large metropolitan areas, let’s say New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta and Washington DC would easily exceed the number killed in the Holocaust. I know these things. I had to learn all about them as a Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defense officer while serving in the Army. I can tell you what kind of structures provide the best radiation defense, and the amount of radiation that it takes to kill a person. I can tell you what the destructive radius of almost any size of weapon is depending if it is an air burst or ground burst. Trust me, they are all bad. Because Norfolk is a prime target because we have the largest Naval Base in the world, the Navy’s prime fighter base, and several major military and civilian shipyards used to build and refit Navy ships and submarines.
If the North Koreans were able to hit Tokyo, Seoul, Seattle, San Fransisco, and Los Angeles (all now in range of their missiles) results would be horrible. It’s not hypothetical.
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
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.
Babette,
Thank you for bringing this up. Let me explain.
The size and power of several used against several large metropolitan areas, let’s say New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta and Washington DC would easily exceed the number killed in the Holocaust. I know these things. I had to learn all about them as a Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Defense officer while serving in the Army. I can tell you what kind of structures provide the best radiation defense, and the amount of radiation that it takes to kill a person. I can tell you what the destructive radius of almost any size of weapon is depending if it is an air burst or ground burst. Trust me, they are all bad. Because Norfolk is a prime target because we have the largest Naval Base in the world, the Navy’s prime fighter base, and several major military and civilian shipyards used to build and refit Navy ships and submarines.
If the North Koreans were able to hit Tokyo, Seoul, Seattle, San Fransisco, and Los Angeles (all now in range of their missiles) results would be horrible. It’s not hypothetical.
Peace,
Steve