Re:A new biography of John von Neumann
by erosenbe0 on Sunday October 10, 2021 @03:03AM
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Von Neumann was ethnically Jewish and his relatives or friends literally went from respected citizens to extermination in unfathomably short order; so one would not be surprised if his calculus pertaining to collateral damage in decimating the Nazis would be rather unforgiving.
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Re:A new biography of John von Neumann
by sudosysgen on Sunday October 10, 2021 @09:45AM
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That's an explanation, but it's still wrong. It's a very dangerous thing to justify ethnic revanchism.
Definitely does not make for justification but I am helping us understand why [hopefully hyperbolic] comments of a political nature by Von Neumann [or other Jewish contemporaries] are often rather objectionable by universal or nominal moral standards.