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Message: <blockquote data-quote="King_Stannis" data-source="post: 103034" data-attributes="member: 324">i don't know....using the example of the nazis, do you think EVERYONE who thought it was humane to euthanize the severely retarded was evil? i'm willing to wager there was probably some otherwise well meaning but perhaps ignorant people - easily swayed by the propaganda films the nazi's made.let me put it in modern day terms. and, by the way, the debate begins and ends with this example. i have no interest in having this turn into something more.....but there are plenty of people who think that killing an unborn child is evil. people on the other side of that argument would most likely beg to differ.morals are relative. in feudal times i could see no problem with this sort of edict being passed down from an ignorant clerical order. they could argue that it is cruel to let one suffer on this world in a state of severe retardation....once again, i am NOT for any of this. it's just a game question, that's all. the same thing happens when one of my characters talk of marrying a 13 year old girl. the immediate reaction from the table is "you pig!" you cradle robber!"...those are 21st century values. not 8th century values, where a woman of 14 might have already started a family with her husband. today, the man would be a child molester. back then?</blockquote>