the rabbinical view of LesserEvilism

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Nov 2 15:56:21 PST 2000


Justin Schwartz wrote:


> True, but the Warsaw Ghetto fighters were heroes. --jks

If you watch any of the disaster movies, it is intriguing how they always show masses running frantically away from what cannot be escaped (such as a half-mile high tidal wave a few blocks behind them). Then a few isolated individuals are shown awaiting it with teary courage (usually holding someone's hand). They rarely show collective courage in the face of the inevitable. And yet in actuality there are innumerable examples of the latter -- the Warsaw Ghetto being one. And the Red Army was not that far off. It might have ended differently.

Carrol



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