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Old Jun 24, 2010, 06:03 PM
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How does understanding vitiate the heinous crimes these flagitious monsters perpetrated? How many of the dead will rise again because of understanding? How does making yourself whole mollify the killing of millions anything other than evil?
Understanding is the only way of making things better in the future. It will not help people in the past, but without better comprehending what makes people work, you will not be able to change the future. That's how I see it, anyway.
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