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Originally Posted by Shauk
I think the face that you are all capable of citing plenty of examples of mass amounts of death just goes to show that this never forget nonsense doesn't do anything. Even if I never forget this, or 9/11, or jews in ovens, or, or, or.. etc...
there will be another one around the corner that happens in the future that i"m not supposed to forget either.
It does nothing.
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I disagree - I think we are less likely (though obviously it is not impossible) to experience such a situation again in a western (or western-style) society, one that is democratic, with a free press and freedom of speech, if examples of immense cruelty, be it Nanking, The Holocaust, slavery, Armenia, etc, remain prominent in the history books and are so roundly condemned.
Of course, something like this is perhaps likely to happen in some part of the world at some point, but the odds of Germany, Japan, Europe or North America taking part in such an activity does seem remote.