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[QUOTE]Originally posted by targetemployee: [QB] I have read your posts and I thank you for your opinions. Some responses I have. First, I am not in favor of political correctness. I think the movement is an overreaction to the criticisms uttered by minority communities in our country. Second, I am troubled by the responses I have received on this forum and at another forum. I feel that there is both a moral and legal obligation that people should take to resolve differences of opinion over an issue or issues. Genocide is not a way to resolve differences. The process is a means to erase the differences and an ethnicity ("race") without solving the issues. From reading the responses, I feel that some of you feel that genocide can be a solution. My mother and I were having a discussion about the Shoah ("Holocaust"). My mother is of the opinion that the Shoah will be remembered by communities and nations for centuries to come as a terrible tragedy not to be repeated. I am of the opinion that the Shoah will be remembered by the Jews, just as they remember the destruction of the Second Temple and the dispersal of their people from Israel, for this is a very personal and emotional event for them. Furthermore, I feel that the non-Jews of the world will come to remember less the events of the Shoah, just as they don't tend to remember the destruction of the Second Temple or the dispersal of the Jews, and will allow a second Shoah to occur. This Shoah may involve the Jews or another ethnicity. After reading the responses, I feel that the process of community forgetfulness is occuring. In several hundred years, there may be yet a ship bearing the name Stalin or Hitler. The community who built those ships will view the men as heroes just as the Mongolians view Genghis Khan as a hero or the Romanians view Vlad the Impaler as a hero. This is a natural process of humanity. There have been many ethnic cleansings in the past, of which I am sure that many are not recorded, and there will be many in the future. And I fear that if humanity does travel to the stars, that humanity will do genocide in the spirit of planetism or some other cause. Star Trek, by depicting a future society of humans, does argue that humans will conduct genocide in the spirit of galactic nationalism and will celebrate men who were responsible for the deaths of thousands and whole ethnicities. My concern is simply this-Star Trek accepts genocide as a natural progression of humanity's need to survive and that those who did the criminal act should be praised for attempting to save the nation. And if another nation of non-humans engages in this activity, they are criminals and should be tried for their crimes. If you notice at the end of DS9, the Federation scientists who grew the virus against the Founders were never caught and tried as war criminals. Instead, the female Founder was tried as a war criminal for the war and the deaths of tens of millions. I heard that Star Trek reflects our society. In this instance, I agree. Recently, our nation had the oppurtunity to sign a document that would have created a war crimes tribunal at the UN. We declined. Our country is very willing to try international war criminals for their alleged abuses of human rights in war, yet when faced with abuses by the military and other agencies of the US government will dismiss the charges as trivial and say that the event is a result of national necessity. This is not true for all events, just a majority of them. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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