Re: Firefighters did the Christian thing in letting house burn to the ground
"Peter T. Chattaway" <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]>
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On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, pcg wrote: > > > Civil society has well established and agreed upon the fact that > > > "just following orders" is not a defense. > > > > True. But unless you're going to compare loss of property to an act > > of genocide, what's your point? > > I'm picking nits, cuz I assume you're kidding (as I am, halfway), but my > understanding of the Nuremberg (burg?) defense is that it applies to any > unlawful act that constitutes a war crime, no? Ah, well, then we're back to the point I made earlier, which is that fire fighting isn't like crime fighting. Firemen aren't policemen. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot