in article 4173C109.341688@yahoo.co.jp, Eric Takabayashi at
etakajp@yahoo.co.jp wrote on 10/18/04 10:11 PM:

> Ernest Schaal wrote:
> 
>>>> I wasn't going to ask that question, since I knew he was an American, an
>>>> American who hates America and particularly hates white Americans.
>>> 
>>> Funny. Eric has never given me that impression, and I have been reading
>>> his posts for a long time.
>> 
>> I didn't think so either at first, but many of his recent messages seem to
>> focus his rage at White Americans in general. I don't know, maybe something
>> has happened recently to cause that bent in his thinking.
> 
> It is your double standard of judging history. That simple.

No, it is a standard that realizes that magnitude is a factor in determining
degree of culpability, and that there are often aggravating and mitigating
circumstances. A mass murderer is usually more culpable than someone who
kills only once. A serial murder is usually more culpable than someone
killing a robber invading his house.

You, on the other hand, seem to be arguing that it is unfair to complain
about the use of massive rape and murder of innocent civilians as a military
tactic by the Japanese military because American troops have violated
military law to rape and murder. You ignore the difference between using
rape and murder as a military tactic and simple inability to control troops,
and you ignore the relative magnitude of the crimes.