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The war had been over 15 years. For this guy, assuming he was in it, no
forgiveness was possible by that time in his journey, no forgetting.
Something so horrible had happened (at least) inside him that his soul
was wounded if not broken.
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It is perfectly possible that he was a victim. It is also possible, and
perhaps more likely, that he was simply a loose cannon needing a target to
fire at, making the xenophobia real enough but its pretext adventitious.
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is what we did at Hiroshima and Nagasaki worse than what the Germans did in
their extermination camps?
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Should one address evils that are qualitatively distinct as though they
offered degrees of moral quantum? I can't see that the result of such an
inquiry is ever likely to be helpful; beyond the possibility of
self-exoneration, that is.
CW
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The telegram said go to the nearest army under penalty of whatever
(Robert Ashley)
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