Bombing of civilian targets in WWII (split from Gen. Holocaust denial discussion)

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Originally Posted by Hans (Post 11511946) So in your opinion had the two defeated fascist powers (and the parties that ran them) been included in sponsoring international law what tenets of law do you think they would have inserted into it?

You forget Japan. The two main differences I see are firstly that Germany and Japan would have questioned aerial bombardment of civilian areas as a weapon of war. Remember North Vietnam in the 1970s. Secondly, the ideology of human rights derives value from individual choices ("rights") at the expense of the idea of community. This is always likely to meet opposition, at present from the sharia law principles of the OIC. Much of it is derived from older legal traditions and I have no problem with it. One use of the holocaust is to demonize the idea of community: that's what happens with you "exclude the Other" - "Never again!" etc.

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