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Originally Posted by jfman
Everyone believes in a sliding scale of atrocity. It’s what sets apart events like the Holocaust from other acts of genocide or ethnic cleansing, Hiroshima or Nagasaki from day in day out events in small scale conflicts.
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You said the evils visited upon the Jews in the Holocaust as “irrelevant”, earlier in this thread.
So why would you use it to draw any distinction now?
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Originally Posted by jfman
You put an important caveat:
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Because it is an important caveat.