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I can't deny that and maybe would even agree with that as an abstract theory, but I just can't stomach the amount of misery and death that would come along with this to ever use a word like "hope" to describe that outcome.




I don’t know if it’s reasonable or not to wish that, as an analogy, the German people had started a true civil war with the Nazis when they seized power. I can see how folks would wonder though.

Germany was not the hub of the world back then. Very different situations.

Yes, that is what an analogy is...

> A similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar. A comparison based on such similarity.


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I don't think this line of thinking has any merit. Genocides have happened before and yet modern genocides still make me sad for humanity and I wish we did a better job preventing them.

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> Boo hoo they make you sad

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>people like you post and talk about it but take no real action.

Jumping to this type of insult based purely on your own fabricated narrative about me does nothing but further justify my last comment calling out your worldview.




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