Re: Just Don't Say Anything
Ralph Nielsen (nielsen@uidaho.edu)
Fri, 18 Jul 1997 22:32:50 -0700
>> >> <snip>
>> RALPH NIELSEN
>> Not only silly and stupid, but selfish and arrogant as well. All the Nazis
>> would have to say to Michael or a Jehovah's Witness is, "Will you tell us
>> the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?" To
>> which Michael and other "truth at all costs" folks would answer, "Yes, I
>> will." They would then stoop to betray their fellow human beings to torture
>> and death and then claim that they were "moral."
>>
>> Haven't you heard of the Golden Rule, Michael? To do to others what you
>> would have them do to you? Isn't betrayal one of the most rotten, lowdown
>> actions of all? If you were in a Nazi prison, wouldn't you appreciate it if
>> someone told a lie to get you out to freedom? Or would you go back to the
>> prison and tell the thugs who locked you up that you had been wrongfully
>> freed on account of a liar who was following the Golden Rule?
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MICHAEL HUGHES
>First of all, Till's response in this thread is inapplicable. We are
>not talking about hiding Jews, but rather the idea of repeating what
>the other prisoners said.
>
>And again I find that I wouldn't have to say anything whatsoever. My
>repeating what they said would not free them. Neither would a lie
>free them. Thus....silence. The original post...look back at
>it...was reprehension at repeating what the prisoners said, thus
>causing them to be tortured or killed. My response has not changed.
RALPH NIELSEN
Michael, I 'm sorry to have to say this, but I think you are just the kind
of person that helped the Nazis come to power in the first place. And I
think you would have helped Stalin's men as well.
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