Sunday, February 9, 2014

"You can't end a war, begun in selfishness, by piling on more selfishness" - Martin Henry Dawson

Dawson didn't believe the Allies could hope to sustain a moral coalition to end Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo's war of selfishness by piling on their own examples of selfishness.

So he rejected the Allied medical establishment's view that the youthful victims of  hitherto invariably-fatal subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) were 'The 4Fs of the 4Fs' , the most 'useless mouths' in the Allied world , and should be deliberately denied penicillin, the only thing that could save their lives.

Instead the establishment selfishly felt that wartime penicillin should be just made in amounts enough to heal only the healthiest of the healthy , "The 1As of the 1As", the Allies' lightly wounded front line combat troops.

By way of pointed contrast, Dawson felt we could best morally combat the Axis's wartime selfishness by very publicly showing that, even in the middle of a Total War, we Allies still believed in the sanctity of every single human life, particularly the ones that the Nazis had felt the most useless : all those individuals, races and genders the Nazis felt were hopelessly handicapped.

So, one (dying) man's war aims against those of Churchill and FDR (Doctor Win the War) and their politico-military-economical elites.

Seemingly a hopeless battle.

But just guess who (tortoise-like) won this particular contest .....




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