From:	Mark Fender markf@******.com
Subject:	Harrowing of Focus (sic)
Date:	Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:01:44 -0500

> You cannot morally justify or morally unjustify actions that easily.
>
> If we assume (which may or may not be a big assumption) that the actions
> of
> these two figures were completeley as per history and legend records them
>
I'd also like to mention that history is written by the victors. Robin Hood
won, Hitler didn't. But, that's not your point, so continue...

> then
> we have the following assumptions:
>
> Robin Hood:
> Robbed the taxes of the English aristocracy to support the local peasantry
> and
> to oppose the rule of a tyrant.
>
Robbed the taxes of the English aristocracy to remove their backing so the
'real' King of England would come back and rule.

> Hitler:
> Waged a war of genocide and agression across europe and africa in attempt
> to
> give his nation global supremacy and wipe out the Jewish and Gypsy
> ethnicities
> as well as those who's genetics or philosophy did not suit well with his
> plans
> of global race-based fascist domination.
>
And led his country out of the greatest depression it had ever known,
started Volkswagen, and improved the lot of his people

> If we assume as history with regards to Hitler and Lore with regards to
> Robin
> Hood do that these are the correct deeds of these individuals; then it is
> very
> clear that one is clearly on better moral ground than the other.
>
> Or we could just say:
>
> There's a difference between a Robin Hood and a Hitler.
>
> And be done with all the useless rhetoric.
>
Good point. I concur. I just hate it when people look at only one side of an
issue. Hitler did a lot of good things. It's just they were overshadowed by
the really, really horrible things he did.