Re: Mr. Szabo's utter inability to think clearly or hold any moral standards

That's over the line John. This should NOT have gone to the whole list.

John Atkinson wrote:

>--- "Imre A. Szabo" <ias@sprintmail.com> wrote:
>
>Answered directly offlist.
>
>Point of fact:
>When asked to provide factual references, Mr. Szabo
>could not.
>
>Mr. Szabo's argument is predicated on "Well, the Nazis
>allegedly liked what the US did to the Indians, so the
>US has no right to critize anyone else."
>
>If the Nazis are so evil, and the US allegedly engaged
>in simillar actions (Mr. Szabo's unsupported
>assertation) then are not simillar actions of Iraq
>also not evil?  And if we are forbidden to critize any
>evil action because our anscestors are not sinless,
>then how can any man critize any evil thing?  No man
>is perfect, and yet Mr. Szabo requires perfection not
>only of the individual but his entire ancestry?  
>
>It was once said that the only thing required for evil
>to triumph is for good men to do nothing.  Mr. Szabo
>would require that good men do and say nothing about
>any evil.  
>
>Are we to permit Mr. Dahmer's eating choices because
>somewhere along our ancestor's line was a murderer? 
>Are we to permit Osama bin Ladin's attacks against the
>US because some of us are descended from Crusaders
>that invaded the Middle East?	Should car theft be
>permitted because the victim's great-great-grandfather
>was a horse thief?
>
>I'm not asking these rhetorically.  These are serious
>questions.  And if you can't answer them then I
>question your right to consider yourself a member of
>the human race.
>
>John
>
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