I'll give you a Holocaust

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

I would include the dodo. Why? Because the dodo is gone, as are the all the
victims of "legal" and "illegal" murder. And because we are discussing GR. A
novel that says that the dodo are dead and asks us to consider the American
Turkey.


"Even if the American's not legally a murderer, he is sick. The etiology ought
to be traced, the treatment found."
                                --Pointsman

(n)  H = sn * hi  / Gi-s + Mi - m(i) /  i = 6 + 3 +3.3 +.5 - 10

H-Holocaust
h-holocaust
G-genocide
s-standard deviation
M-murder
m-money (in U.S. dolars 1973 inf. adj.)
i-individuals











calbert at pop.tiac.net wrote:

> Mr. Norton (hi, bob!):
>
> > How about reserving capital "H" Holocaust for what King Leopold visited
> > upon the Congo 100 years ago, next to which the fate of the Jews and
> > Gypsies in Europe falls clearly into second place?
>
> Why so? 'twould seem that if the intent was the same in each instance
> (the total  elimination of the targeted) then there would be no need
> for an ordinal determination.
> Perhaps we reserve a particular distaste for the efforts of a 20th
> century nation to pursue the kinds of policies which discredited
> those of the previous century. Particularly given that the regime in
> question sought to bring modern notions of "efficiency" to their
> task. To make it a national priority, to give it primacy over other
> strategic needs - this speaks of an involvement on a different level
> than that of Leopold in the Congo.
>
> > Or are the lives of
> > 10,000,000 black Africans somehow less important than those of 6,000,000
> > Jews and Gypsies.
>
> I don't know that anyone has sought to establish that - the more
> relevant question is "what lessons are illustrated in either
> example?" and on THAT basis, I would say that we have more to fear
> from the example of the Nazis than that of the Belgians.
>
> after all, there are those who would argue for the inclusion of the
> dodoes in the list of the great crimes of humanity.
>
> love,
> cfa