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Do not waste your tears, I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men.
Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.
Posted by: Wolverfrog
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Posted by: Wolverfrog
It is a strong analogy and one I don't agree with, but I think what Traviss was trying to say is that for all the good she did, if Halsey had done the same thing in WWII she would have ended up at Nuremburg too.
She just went about conveying the analogy in the wrong way. No writer can be completely perfect.
And that is where the analogy falls flat. Halsey did good things that saved millions of lives. Mengele didn't.
If through his experiments he'd discovered a cure for cancer or the legacy of his research stopped a fatal pandemic in the future, then you could say the same thing about him.
Of course, he'd still be a monster and Halsey isn't nearly so bad. But there's still an element of truth to the analogy, although I would have chosen a different one if I'd written it.
I would still regard Mengele as a monster because his experiments resulted in enormous loss of life, many of it needlessly. Halsey tried her hardest to make sure the program was as safe as possible (remember that snippet about her testing the augments on animals?), this alone makes her a better person than Mengele who would probably grab a dozen random children, shoot them up with drugs and see what happened.