Re: Jewish Attitudes to Dresden Bombing


"James Kahn" <kahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In <891d13du0ar80ru41jkvgnlhgnuvgl3vfe@xxxxxxx> Matt Silberstein
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On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 12:53:01 +0000 (UTC), in
soc.culture.jewish.moderated , "cindys" <cstein1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in

And I am not
willing to approve of burning children alive because their parents
might have done something or other that might have supported the
Nazis.

And now, you are going off on a tangent.

No, burning people alive is exactly the issue here.

Look, no one here seriously favors burning people alive, especially
innocent people. Can you drop this? It's really tiresome.

Exactly.

The issue is that when people suffer such a fate, as is inevitable
in war, who is responsible. For example, let's suppose terrorists
hiding in a civilian neighborhood start firing missiles at school
children in Israel. The Israelis bomb the civilian neighborhood,
which kills the terrorists but also kills civilians, including
children. Should Israel not have done this? Perhaps even you
would agree it was justified. So your moral absolutism about
"burning people alive" has to get chucked.

Then the question is whether Dresden represents an analogous situation.
Many people here have argued that it does, insofar as there was some
tactical benefit, that those making the decision at the time had reason
to believe (whether correctly with hindsight or not) that it would hasten
the end of the war, and so on. Others have argued to the contrary.
That's
a reasonable thing to debate, so long as we don't rely on hindsight but
consider what the decisionmakers might reasonably have believed and known
at the time. It's of course pretty much off topic for this group.
But trying to twist the discussion into for vs against "burning people
alive" is just annoying.

Thank you.
Best regards,
---Cindy S.


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