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- From: gsmith@polyhymnia.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Gene W. Smith)
- Subject: Germans and Morals
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.184007.27011@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
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- Organization: IWR, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 18:40:07 GMT
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- Reading the Torah and morals thread and the German thread together, it
- occurs to me that the problem with the Germans is that they do not
- adhere to the very strict standards of Biblical interpretation
- advocated by Daniel Farkas. For instance, slavery is illegal here,
- though admittedly it was popular during WW2. Moreover, while
- homosexuals are sometimes looked down on, I'm not sure they are looked
- down on *enough*. Also, the bigotry is too undiscriminating, since
- the same skinheads who beat up gays are also quite happy to beat up
- Jews.
-
- This sort of thing is the real trouble with the Germans. They put
- homosexuals in concentration camps, which seems to follow the
- requirement for capital punishment for gays pretty well (Mr. Farkas
- will have to tell me if he thinks lesbians should be killed also.)
- But they had the bad taste to put the Jews into the very same camps, a
- violation of Torah as it seems to me.
-
- So it seems to me a fitting punishment for the arrogance and crudity
- of the Germans would be to put Farkas in charge of the country. I
- think his ideals about morality are perfectly suited to punish the
- Germans, being pretty well suited to punish anybody. Institute
- capital punishment for adultery, homosexuality, and chewing gum on
- Saturday, and enslave anybody who is handy (the Poles are still
- somewhere in the neighborhood, I think.) Nobody could fear a reunited
- Germany run along such high moral lines, and the whole "German
- problem" would disappear, along with people trying to get into Germany
- and all the terrible food the Germans insist on eating.
-
- Now, some people may think my perspective here is a little warped.
- And there is another way of looking at it--maybe if we inhabit
- soc.culture.x, and need somebody to deplore, we might be able to do
- this without moving over to soc.culture.y, and clucking our tongue
- at how horrible the y's are.
-
- Speaking, of course, as someone who is just visiting both places, so
- what do I know...
-
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- Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/IWR/Ruprecht-Karls University
- gsmith@kalliope.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
-