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To: sinkspur
You were the one that pointed out Eichmann was a Nazi. His political affiliation has little to do with it. The book about his trial is a study in how Evil comes about.

The Fact that I was raising, is that Evil, is not the exclusive province of madmen like Jeffery Dahmer, they are fairly benign in the larger scheme of things.

The greater Evil exists when nameless faceless bureaucrats begin to merely follow the diktats of what they can hide in the letter of the law.

"I was only following orders" was not a sufficient rationale for keeping Eichmann from the gallows.

However, it is not hard to imagine that a refusal to do so would have also lead to his demise, In light of that, how much greater the evil perpetrated here, by men (particularly Greer, and Whittemore) in light of the fact that by doing the right thing they would have suffered no such consequence.

This woman has now departed this life, but in order for that to happen the 2 men in one branch of the government had to thwart the actions of the Chief Executives of both the state of Florida, and the United States, and the duly elected legislatures of both.

They did it willingly, and intentionally, following no conscience, and exercising no morality in their judgement.

2,740 posted on 03/31/2005 9:26:24 AM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "What every woman needs..." ; ))
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To: hobbes1
but in order for that to happen the 2 men in one branch of the government had to thwart the actions of the Chief Executives of both the state of Florida, and the United States, and the duly elected legislatures of both.

On the contrary, the judges followed the law. The Schindlers were asking them to engage in precisely the sort of judicial activism you claim to decry. If you want to blame someone, blame the Florida legislature for passing bad law.

2,776 posted on 03/31/2005 9:37:59 AM PST by malakhi
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To: hobbes1
They did it willingly, and intentionally, following no conscience, and exercising no morality in their judgement.

That would make a heck of a tagline.

2,815 posted on 03/31/2005 9:45:35 AM PST by NeoCaveman (Abortion, euthenasia, socialized medicine, don't Democrats just kill you.....)
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