The statement that one could escape a pogrom or a planned extermination is just that: A statement. Nothing negative, nothing positive. Neither a good act or a bad act. An act. That's all.
arthur -----Original Message----- From: mcandreb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 5:38 AM To: Keith Hudson; Cordell, Arthur: ECOM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Futurework] Selective breeding? Victor Frankel said in his book "Man's Search For Meaning" that the 'best' human beings did not survive the concentration camps because they freely gave their lives so that others might live. "Tis a far far better thing I do than I've ever done before.." Brian McAndrews > [emsg.txt] > Arfthur, > > At 19:30 02/01/2004 -0500, you wrote: > >How about this: Those who were average or with lower acuity to > >surroundings were eliminated in various pogroms. *If* there was > >a selective breeding, perhaps it was based on the quickest, > smartest > >most aware were able to move or outwit the killers. > > Yes, that must have been a factor, too -- in much the same way that > the > rich of Baghdad took holidays in Syria while the bombing went on > during the > invasion. Also, because of the bipolar nature of the Jewish law on > usury, > the rich merchants would have good contacts with the Gentile > establishment > in the cities. Just as the rich Jews and intelligentsia were able to > get > out of Germany in the years before WWII, so might the richer merchants > in > Russia and Poland, etc have been able to tell their contacts to > withdraw > from the Jewish villages and ghettos when progroms were being rumoured > at > high level. > > Keith > > > > >arthur > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Keith Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 1:30 AM > >To: Tor Førde > >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [Futurework] Selective breeding? > > > >At 23:18 01/01/2004 +0100, you wrote: > >>I was wondering about the theory of Keith Hudson about selective > breeding > >>of jews in Eastern Europe. > > > >It's not a theory of mine. It's an observation from history. > > > >> The aim of selective breeding is to develop a specie who carries > some > >> preferred qualities by allowing only those carring these qualities > to breed. > > > >That's what animal breeders do. In western society today anybody can > >breed. Or, rather, any woman can breed if she finds a male that she > thinks > >will be a good father and provider. Eugenics got a bad name in the > last > >century because the state or medical authorities decided who should > breed. > > > >> Where only the most intelligent jews allowed to get children? What > >> about the more ordinary jews, Keith? > > > >Whoever said that "ordinary" Jews couldn't breed? I didn't say so. > > > >Keith > > > >> > >> > >>Hilsen > >>Tor Førde > >>email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Futurework mailing list > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > > > >Keith Hudson, Bath, England, <www.evolutionary-economics.org> > > Keith Hudson, Bath, England, <www.evolutionary-economics.org> > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
