Re: Truth?

ChuckKuecker (ckuecker@mcs.net)
Tue, 19 May 1998 18:20:15 -0500


At 01:53 PM 5/19/98 CST, you wrote:
>Can we really put a definite definition to the word truth?
>
>If you believe we can then consider:
>
>1. truth is in the eye of the beholder
> 2. bias truth
> a. hitler is viewed as evil by the majority for ordering the
>death of millions, yet Einstien is viewed as good when in actuality
>he killed millions more than hitler

Can you elaborate on Einstein's guilt? I am assuming you mean his
recommendation of the A-bomb in WW II.

There have been two atomic weapons used in warfare. Perhaps 100,000 people
died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Total deaths due to nuclear power are
probably under 100 worldwide, not counting Chernobyl. Well under a million
by all conceivable nuclear related causes.

Last count I heard, 'Der Fuhrer' was responsible for about 10 million
total, and almost the complete extermination of the Jews of Europe.

Seems like quite a stretch..

Chuck Kuecker