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Originally Posted by HarryT
To suggest that no person who has ever held such a belief can be a person of good conscience is a view that is entirely unsupportable, to my mind.
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It doesn't matter to me if anyone thinks it's "unsupportable" or not. I'm not looking for validation or approval for my suggestion It's just a very basic tenet of my personal philosophy. No one who believes another life (or race or ethnic group) is of lesser intrinsic worth than their own is a person of good conscience. Such beliefs disqualify them. No matter when they may have lived.
Your assertion that the unconscionable belief of "
my ethnic group is superior to your ethnic group" being widespread or even universally held (which of course it never was) somehow guarantees that some of them HAD to be people of good conscience is just as odd and unsupportable to me. It's not a numbers/majority game.