[MD] Platt's Individual Level

[Case]

[Case]
> It is hard to imagine anyone applauding atrocities and genocides but while
> you are listing them, why do you always leave out our own treatment of
> Africans and indigenous Indians. The number of murders and rapes are at
> least on a par with the Muslims who are pikers on your list. I would guess
> we beat the Nazis and fascists too.

[Platt]
Leading genocides in the 20th century: Mao (Communist) 49,000,000. Stalin
(Communist)13,000,000. Pol Pot (Communist) 1,700,000. Kim Sung (Communist)
1,600,000. Hitler (Nazi) 12,000,000. 

[Case]
I don't see any Muslims on your list but the best estimate of American
genocide of native people suggests that the population of North American
peoples was between 1.2 and 12 million in 1492. It was reduced to under
250,000 by 1900. I note that no one seems to have bothered counting these
things much before 1945. Are we better than the commies because we murdered
fewer people? I thought the point was your repeated claims that we are
morally superior to our enemies. Is this how you keep score? 

[Platt]
I you want to feel guilty about something you didn't do, be my guest.
Collective guilt is no more sensible than collective ideas.

[Case]
I do not feel guilty for act that I did not commit. (I have plenty to keep
me awake at night on that score.) But to feel no shame that your government
did these things is another matter. That it has not repented is even worse.
But to claim that we are morally superior because we are a bit behind in the
numbers games is morally reprehensible.