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And it would have been just as valid to question. The reason we all now know the Holocaust was real isn’t because we just decided to believe 2nd hand personal a
by matt-attack 6y ago
And it would have been just as valid to question. The reason we all now know the Holocaust was real isn’t because we just decided to believe 2nd hand personal accounts, but because we have massive amounts of physical evidence.
- philwelch 6y agoIf the Allies had accepted the first-hand intelligence reports they received during the war rather than dismissing them because they seemed outrageous and improbable, they could have saved lives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilecki%27s_Report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilecki%27s_Report
- MathiasPius 6y agoAnd if the international community had been more critical of the US claims on the alleged weapons of mass destruction of Saddam Hussein, 2 decades of war and the deaths of millions could likely have been avoided. It's not as black and white as that, and I believe some measure of restraint is valuable when making decisions that can have unbounded consequences. Sometimes making the right decision eventually is better than making the wrong decision immediately.