[thoughtomator]

Today's version: Million Dollar Baby

By the way, I've been duly served notice that those who consider only themselves to be sane categorically refuse to consider any analogy or reference that may touch on Nazi Germany in any way, shape, or form.

If we can't come up with another reference for a government that starves disabled people to death, in a country whose culture worships not God but a physical ideal, it's our own fault and our own problem.

Just thought you'd like to know, the "sane" have decreed it so, and we "insane" must oblige them, as it is our duty as good Germans, I mean, FReepers.

[lainde]

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[George Smiley]

If we can't come up with another reference for a government that starves disabled people to death, in a country whose culture worships not God but a physical ideal, it's our own fault and our own problem.

Cambodia under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge;
The Ukraine under Stalin;

Just two examples of mass murder occurring under socialism.

They weren't disabled, you say?

But they were disarmed.

[green pastures]

I've noticed that, too.

I got into the discussion with another Freeper the other day. I was told I was "making a huge leap," "it wasn't a valid comparison." That "the Nazi's wanted to exerminate an entire race."

I thought that person had perhaps not known about the extermination of the disabled by the Nazis. From a quick search on google, I posted, " If one looks at history, it becomes clear just where the practice can lead. In Nazi Germany euthanasia became an obsession, eventually resulting in the belief in eugenics or the achievement of a genetically "superior" race. Beginning with the mentally and physically disabled, 200,000 of whom were systematically murdered between 1939 and 1945, euthanasia later became part of the Nazis’ final solution. Jews, Gypsies, Gays, Communists, German dissenters, and others were experimented on and finally targeted for extermination under the rationale that they were "inferior."

It was carefully explained to me that I was "taking one small facet of one small case and turning it into an analogy."

Somehow, I suspect that the death toll of 200,000 disabled people began with one small facet.