Current Events > Do you still support them going after nazi war criminals?

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.......you still hear about these cases from time to time that a nazi war criminal is found but obvs. you hear about it less now.
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Yes. I still support it. They were full grown adults who knew right from wrong and still didn't give a fuck and committed sadistic shit to a many a person. Growing old does not grant you a get outta jail free pass.

The fact that a lot haven't ever turned themselves in proves that they clearly have no conscience, so in to your comfy jail cell you go. The Statute of Limitations be damned.
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Yes, I support the pursuit of justice, even if sometimes it comes far too late.

Provided they're fit enough to stand trial and give evidence in their own defence, there's nothing "unjust" about taking suspects to court just because they're elderly. If they're guilty, then having avoided being put behind bars until near the end of a long life is their (undeserved) good luck -- not a reason to pretend the system is somehow badly screwing them over.

I also don't think there's anything terribly "unjust" about prosecutors pursuing the "soft target" of former Nazis, even though I believe the authorities really need to focus their efforts on punishing crimes against humanity that are less than 72 years old. And the reason I think so is because punishing a guilty man isn't unjust -- punishing an innocent man is. Now, you might argue that the incineration of German and Japanese cities by the Allies represents an unpunished moral crime; in which case there's an injustice here, all right, but's it's not an injustice that's been done to an Auschwitz guard. Failure to punish crimes against humanity is an injustice done to innocent victims, not to perpetrators.

For what it's worth, I used to think differently. I couldn't see the logic whereby the nuclear age's press-button mass killers were in any way morally superior to the Einsatgruppen firing squads. I was familiar enough with Allied war crimes to understand that we sometimes imitated the very evil we said we wanted to destroy, and I believed we should have the guts to finally call it quits and wipe the slate clean.

I now consider that naïve, and realize that I was asking for fairness for the murderers instead of justice for their victims. I find that even partial justice sits better than no justice, which is what wiping the slate clean would inevitably mean. This guy might feel that partial justice is pretty rough; and maybe it is a little, but it'll have to do.
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Hell yes, there is a reason when people think "evil" that the nazis are the first group to come to mind for many people. No matter how old they are these evil people need to serve jail time or be put to death as they did seriously fucked up things.
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An atrocity is still an atrocity, no matter how long ago it happened.
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