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by tptacek 271 days ago
I'm not sure "at least it wasn't the Holocaust" is, in practice, quite the defense legal argument it's being made out to be here.
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I'm purposefully choosing extremes to highlight the concept in such a way it can't possibly be argued against.

The concept being - organized or institutional crimes are real, and can be much, much, MUCH more severe than murder.