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Bent Willow wrote: > Strong moral conscience is the salvation of all of us. A mere fifty years > ago German authorities decided that sacrificing the disabled and mentally > ill to alleviate the financial burden of their care by the strong and > productive was the greater good. Perhaps a stronger moral conscience on the > part of those authorities would have not only saved those 'little ones,' but > the millions that followed. > ----- > Respectfully > Mary Ann Ryan Let's keep this discussion to matters germane to finding a cure for PD. I strongly resent your twisting of history to try to derive a similarly twisted conclusion. If you'd know the history of World War II and the Holocaust, you'd also know that the Nazis embarked on murdering all those who opposed National Socialism only after the allies and more specifically the American administration refused to protect those people. In May 1939, the St. Louis, a ship loaded with 937 German Jews were refused entry first in Cuba and then in the US. With no place to go, the ship returned to Europe where many of the passengers were allowed to disembark in the Western countries, namely France, Belgium, and Holland. But shortly afterward, except for those in the UK, they had to confront the fate of those under the German occupation. Germany had now been given license to do whatever it pleased to those within. Subsequently, the Wansee Conference in 1942 dictated the policy of annihilation of the 'undesirables'. many of the passengers of the St. Louis were eventually incarcerated in the concentration camps and then murdered. You should also note that the gas chambers were tested first on the handicapped and after that success was used on whole populations of different ethnic and religious backgrounds. Ironically, the voyage of the St. Louis has been exhibited at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum this summer. A visit to the museum might open your eyes to the definition of morality. 'respectfully' Michel Margosis