Re:What the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive wants the world ...
by BrandoElFollito on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:54PM
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A poet (Polish?) once said that "one million and one is still one million" (IIRC he was talking about Stalin rulings and the number of victims, and that a single life does not weight much in such times, but I am not sure)
Re:What the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive wants the world ...
by BrandoElFollito on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @03:21PM
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It was actually Mrs Wislawa Szymborska, Nobel Prize winner (although a reluctant one).
The quote was "one thousand and one is still only one thousand" from a poem about a concentration camp (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szebnie_concentration_camp)
If it's a choice between him and me, I choose me.
If it's a choice between those ten people and me, I probably choose me.
If it's a choice between a n+1 people and me, I guess I've already done n, what's another one?
Acknowledging that there is a difference between being sent away to war and certain death. That there's a difference between 1 more person and a hundred. I believe that far more people than we'd like to admit would just follow orders.