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Originally Posted by evman150
This is circular logic question begging.
A similar argument would go as follows:
He was a Jew in Poland during WW2. Jews were to be put to death in Poland during WW2. He was put to death. Accept the punishment of the state. It's not complicated.
I find it amusing how many of the death penalty advocates fall prey to logical fallacies and present so many flawed, specious arguments.
As usual with these things, correlations abound no doubt.
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Sorry for being a bit off topic here, but since I'm Polish I would like to quickly correct the statement (even though I know that's not what you're getting at). Jews were not put to death in Poland by the Polish state. They were put to death by the Nazi German state in former Polish territory that was occupied under Germany. I might be a little picky, but this is a common mistake made in numerous publications that gives off the impression that Poland was actively involved in genocide, whereas this all happened in what at that time was Germany. Poland did not exist from 1939-1945.