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If you're interested in this, RadioLab did a great episode on good and evil and really took note of Fritz Haber. It's called The Bad Show. Fritz Haber was a r
by nscalf 9y ago
If you're interested in this, RadioLab did a great episode on good and evil and really took note of Fritz Haber. It's called The Bad Show. Fritz Haber was a really conflicting character, he seemed extremely patriotic and made a lot of personal sacrifices for his country.
Every time I see someone who is described like that, I have to wonder how much of the disdain we have for him is because that wasn't our country? If we had a brilliant man who invented a solution to the worldwide fear of an impending food shortage, but they also made a disturbing wartime weapon, would we feel the same way?
- aalleavitch 9y agoIsn't that basically the case for all the famous men on the Manhattan project?
- wbl 9y agoThey made sacrifices for someone else's country. A lot of them were not US citizens.
- mieseratte 9y agoSure, a whole lot of 'em might have been of foreign origin but that doesn't preclude one from being or becoming an American.
- mieseratte 9y ago> Every time I see someone who is described like that, I have to wonder how much of the disdain we have for him is because that wasn't our country? If we had a brilliant man who invented a solution to the worldwide fear of an impending food shortage, but they also made a disturbing wartime weapon, would we feel the same way? He might be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch!