If you could eliminate one person from history...who would it be?

[McCamy Taylor]

164. Now, using words rather than a visual, why this question is all wrong for DU.

The Democratic Party is the one with the big umbrella. We are inclusive, not exclusive. We know that if we respect each other and make use of each others strengths and make allowances for each others weaknesses, we can create a better society. If we call another person disposable or unnecessary or inconvenient, we violate the most basic principle of our country which is "We must all hang together, or we will all hang separately."

The Nazis persuaded Germany that they could improve their country by eliminating certain people. Democrats fought a war to prove the Nazis wrong. Actions can be wrong depending upon the circumstances. People are never wrong. Sometimes, the right thing to do is to make it impossible for others to do the wrong thing. However, the right thing is never, ever to make it impossible for others to be.

For those who prefer to look at history in Marxist terms, people are a product of their society. Germany created Hitler. Rome created Constantine. Some writer in Palestine created Abraham---probably around 200 BC. These folks do not exist in history as human beings. They are myths. And if we could go back in time and erase the name which ancient Rome gave to its myth of Constantine, Rome would give the myth a new name.

I think it would be interesting to go back in time and stop the mega volcanic eruption of 70,000 BC that caused a human bottle neck in which only a few 1000 of us survived. I think that event probably had more to do with making us cruel (to survive) and cunning (for the same reason) than anything else that has happened in history. However, without the eruption, I doubt that I would be here posting this response on DU.