Technologos comments on Morality and International Humanitarian Law - Less Wrong

2 Post author: David_J_Balan 30 November 2009 03:27AM

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Comment author: taw 30 November 2009 07:17:53PM 0 points [-]

Hard evidence for it being? It's quite easy to see that peaceful Nazi conquests like Austria and Denmark had it far better than those that fought back like Poland and Soviet Union.

Comment author: Technologos 01 December 2009 07:23:09AM 0 points [-]

The Soviet Union ended up worse off than it would have been under Nazi rule? Possible, but certainly not guaranteed from the evidence. I suspect Austria and Denmark's similarity to Germany and the relative absence of the demographics that Hitler targeted may have played a role.

Perhaps nations fight back precisely because they have more to lose.