somebody wrote:
>> In other words, Germany as a societal whole had been moving towards the
>> Holocaust for some time.
> 
> You can say the same thing for positive changes as well. Society as a whole
> has been moving towards democracy, freedom, equality... etc. In other words,
> no individual had a significant positive effect on society by not being
> censored.

Yes. If you're going to discount my Hitler example, I'll say "Ehn. Martin 
Luther King wasn't any great deal. People were moving towards equal rights 
even before him."

Hitler was generally acknowledged to be a wonderful orator. (Actually, our 
governor got in trouble once saying he admired Hitler's skills at oration.) 
We might have had the holocaust, the war, etc, but I suspect it would not 
have gone on as long or been quite so terrible had Hitler not inspired the 
german people to keep it up for as long.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
   see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.

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