The Declarer (Floyd McWilliams' Blog)

Monday, December 30, 2002


I got an email on a mailing list from someone I had met at a party. I checked out her web page and found this little statement at the top: No matter how bad things get -- war is worse.

Let's test this proposition with a thought experiment. On the left is a list of bad things; on the right, the situation during wartime. Pick which you would prefer.












Jewish civilian, Reichskommisariat Ostland   
Soldier, Red Army, Baltic Front
Laborer, White Sea Canal Project
Soldier, White Army
Tibetan Buddhist monk
Tibetan guerilla rebel
Afghan civilian, August 2001
Afghan civilian, October 2001
Black slave, antebellum South
Soldier, Union Army


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