Assassination - Re: What is the moral course

Luke Benjamin Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Fri Sep 14 11:32:24 PDT 2001


On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Stephen E Philion wrote:


>
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 lweiger at umich.edu wrote:
>
> > First off, who said anything about the US doing the assassinating? Of
> > course the US wouldn't have killed their own puppets!
> >
> >
> > > > Quite different. There exists no reliable evidence that would indicate
> > > > that execution deters crime. However, one can reasonably argue that
> > > > assasinating Hitler
> > >
> > > likely not. would have created a hero, a fallen hero. on the othr hand,
> > > supporting the struggle for the Spanish Republic could have had much more
> > > profound consequences for the battle against facism in Europe.
> >
> > Umm, no, if someone blessed with prescience had killed Hitler before he
> > manuevered himself into the role of de facto dictator, the counterfactual
> > that WWII wouldn't have occured is quite plausible. Also, fighting the
> > fascists in Spain would've likely prevented a repressive regime which
> > lasted for decades, but I doubt it would've saved a huge number of lives.
> >
> For Jews, gypsies, leftists, disabled people, gays, ..the worst of the
> killing occurred in the last couple of years of Hitler's regime. That
> qualifies as a pretty huge number, no?
>
> Steve
>

Depends on how much Franco and Co contributed to that end. Do you know? My knowledge of Spain and its role in the Axis powers is quite limited. However, I do know that Italy was quite reluctant to hand over its Jews for extermination.

-- Luke



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