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In reply to the discussion: We're already past the beginning of the Nazi/Holocaust, we're already several stages in. [View all]Oopsie Daisy
(6,212 posts)If you want to split hairs and parse words to discuss whether someone will be "less tragically dead" than any other cause of death... I fail to see the significance of such a distinction, especially with a hypothetical. But if you're willing to talk numbers, it's clear that the enormity of deaths at Auschwitz is far more tragic. Let's talk numbers. Based on historical research and estimates, approximately 1.1 million people were murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp complex during World War II.
If there's a hurricane that results in the loss of life, yes, that will be tragic. But it will be no Auschwitz. There are no gas chambers, no cremation ovens, no executions, no mass graves, no bulldozers pushing layers of dead bodies into trenches. It's simply not the same.
Do you also refer to Covid as the Black Death or the Bubonic Plague? All of the Covid deaths were "tragic" and they were not any more or "less dead" than folks who died from the Plague... but that's where the similarities end. We don't call Covid "the Plague" for a reason.
Sorry, enough of the word games and hypotheticals. I'm done with you too. I have a family reunion cookout to prepare for tomorrow.
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