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To: Bryanw92
So, if you had a doctor who was a great doctor, loved his kids, paid his taxes, served the community, etc....but just happened to be an American Nazi, would you consider him as an individual or would you paint him with the broad brush of actions taken by other Nazis a half a world away 75 years ago?

False equivalence. The characteristics of the doctor and Naziism are mutually exclusive.

But I suspect you knew that.

109 posted on 03/22/2016 4:04:31 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: sauropod

>>False equivalence. The characteristics of the doctor and Naziism are mutually exclusive.

I am not saying that he is a Nazi because he is a doctor or vice versa. I’m asking if you would defend a good doctor who happens to be a political (i.e. one that is essentially a Nazi In Name Only) Nazi too.


123 posted on 03/22/2016 4:29:02 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: sauropod
The characteristics of the doctor and Naziism are mutually exclusive.

Didn't Josef Mengele try that precisely that defense at Nuremberg?

259 posted on 03/22/2016 7:11:19 AM PDT by null and void (This is "They live", and most people would rather fight you than put on the glasses...)
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