Using data from the Nazis

[Sayonara]

Not for long.

 

/me goes to delete some pointless posts, as promised on several occasions.

[creature]

I think the data should be used. Then at least those people will not have died completly in vain.

[mooeypoo]

That's exactly the reason why I think it shouldn't be used.

 

No matter what you did - they died in vain. IF you say that if we use the info then they HAVENT died in vain, you're in fact giving meaning to the actions that caused their deaths. They're MURDERS.

 

That was my point.

 

(btw this isn't personally against you sorry if it sounds a bit 'brutal' i am just trying to pass my point)

 

~moo

[Glider]

I think the only legitimate solution to this question would be to present the case to the survivors and ask them. I don't think anyone else has a right to presume what the victims of those experiments would want done with the data.

[mooeypoo]

True.

 

I must say that I doubt this will ever go to them. In israel we have many holocaust survivors, and the state is doing a LOT to concider their feelings and traumas.

 

If we take into acount that in israel it's prohibited from sounding music of specific german writers in NATIONAL events, *and* that the israeli train took long to build because the debate was how to make sure it doesn't remind people of the death trains, i'd say this discussion about the results would probably fall.

 

But that's *my* opinion, based on my knowledge of holocaust survivors (half my family), and the entire delicate subject, and I agree with you completely Glider.

 

I won't presume to speak for them.

 

We should just make sure that they ARE asked *and* that even after there aren't many of them left (which is starting to be the case even today), that we won't take hasty decisions even if they're not around to give their individual opinions.

 

~moo