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Was the 'release' a metaphor?

posted 9 years ago by onefinnedfish
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I'm not sure if anyone else caught this, but to me it felt like the 'release' ceremony, where the elderly and the young were terminated, was a metaphor for euthanasia and abortion?

Does anybody else think this was the case?

[–] bluerisk 9 years ago

I'd say the "clear language" for euthanasia what is already a metaphor for it means "good death".

It was used by the Nazis to cover the actual crime behind it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_T4

This regime, the elders, are just about the same.

Ich bin kein ausgeklügelt Buch, ich bin ein Mensch mit seinem Widerspruch.
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer