Slavery Is Worse Than The Holocaust

Rebuttal #1 l Moving the goal postsMy opponent is attempting to equate my shift from highlighting the death toll of the Jews, to highlighting the overall death toll as the same as him extending his argument from Slavery in the Atlantic, to all slavery in general.The problem with this is of course that I provided examples in my initial argument that demonstrated Nazi atrocities committed not only against the Jews, but against the Russians and other prisoners of war, etc. He also did not recognize the purpose for my listing the death toll of the Jews, as my purpose was not to just focus on them, but to highlight the ratio of those who died to those who lived in Europe just prior.His attempt to extend that argument was in no way addressed at all in his initial argument, and is an after-thought which completely changes the dynamics of this debate and is guilty of the charge, "moving the goal posts." The very fact that my opponent has continued to contain all of his arguments to slavery in the atlantic further demonstrates this point.Rebuttal #2 l Benefits of Nazi ExperimentsYou said: "Altitude experiments allowed researchers to find how humans' were effected as the altitude was increased."This article my opponent has cited, nor anything here has demonstrated that this research ACTUALLY benefitted anyone. Due to it's sadistic nature, experts conclude that it's scientific findings are not reliable and should not be trusted.Here are a few examples of their dismissals, within the link you provided.[1]"Doctor Jay Katz of the Yale University School of Law, who emphatically opposed the re-use of the Nazi data, suggests nonetheless that the experiments be republished in full detail so that no one may deny that they occurred. He would then condemn the data to oblivion. Dr. Katz dismissed the Nazi experiments with one phrase: "They're of no scientific value.""Allen Buchanan, Philosophy Professor at the University of Arizona, is also a member of the Human Subjects Review Committee at the University of Minnesota. He believes that bad ethics and bad science are inextricably linked together. He found that the human experiments that were ethically sound were also scientifically sound. Therefore, he concluded that since the Nazi experiments were unethical, they were, by equation, scientifically invalid.""The experts agree that the Nazi experiments lacked scientific integrity. The Nazis even perverted scientific terminology. Their experimental "control subjects" suffered the most and died. "Sample size" meant truck loads of Jews. "Significance" was an indication of misery, and "response rate" was a measure of torment. Behind the niceties of their learned discourse were the horrors of Nazi torture. Some have suggested against terming them "experiments," since they were really brutal beatings and mugging."Currently today, there are far better methods to study the effects of altitude and do not entail the sadistic and unethical aspects of the Nazi's which yielded no benefit, but only tarnished the institution of science.[2][3][4] When one compares the work of real scientists to the writings of the pseudoscientist of the Nazi regime, it is made extremely apparent.You also said: "Poison experiments were used to see how long it would take for a human to die with different poisonous materials."What I find interesting is that the very article you cited states, "The Nazis also conducted experiments which involved unspeakable varieties of torture that carried no pretense of scientific inquiry. They included poison and wound experiments." I would go so far as to say it is self-evident that a scientific poison experiment involving the torture and murder of human beings offers no benefit whatsoever to mankind.I would like to close this rebuttal by asking my opponent how just one experiment made by the Nazi's has translated into a real world benefit in the fields of science and medicine.Rebuttal #3 l ExterminationMy opponents concluding remarks by my opponent also apply to many victims of the holocaust who also lived on to tell the tale and live with their suffering.Kind Regards,TrueScotsman[1] http://www.jlaw.com...[2] http://cardiovascres.oxfordjournals.org...[3] http://www.jappl.org...[4] http://www.sciencedirect.com...