Demjanjuk - guilty or not guilty?

[Chakravartin]

August West wrote:

I explained quite clearly.

All you have done is engage in an emotional tirade, and you cannot answer my simple question because you misrepresented him.

1. You're trolling.

2. This will be my last response to you.

3. I did not misrepresent rjmacs.

While he made a token gesture to indicate that Demjanjuk would not be absolved in such a case, he subsequently proceeded to put the entire burden of guilt upon the state rather than the individual, calling Demjanjuk a "scapegoat."

rjmacs wrote: Totalitarian states aren't open, forgiving systems in which people handed a list of options and invited to reflect on the possibilities, deliberate the consequences, and make moral choices. They are conscience-destroying machines that literally deprive people (victims and perpetrators alike) of the capacity to know and do good, leaving only wickedness. Courts aren't designed to illustrate this point; i think we'd all be better off not pretending that these abominations are simple matters of individual conscience. It's overly simplistic and it makes scapegoats of the people we happen to find and decide to prosecute.

I stand by my assertion that such a position is utterly stupid and morally reprehensible.