I think that this may be getting way off topic, and I won't post on this 
subject again.  However, I can't let this slide.  Freeways have certainly 
saved thousands and thousands of lives by moving traffic off old two lane 
highways that really really are unsafe.  I am not about to "thank" Hitler 
for saving those lives, however.

I do find it fairly amazing that anyone can attempt to draw some kind of 
equivalency between someone intentionally killing thousands by flying an 
airplane into an office building and someone losing their life in an 
accidental collision with a deer (or another car, for that matter).  And 
lest you classify me as some nutty conservative, I felt the same way when 
folks talked about Vietnam being not so bad because more people died on the 
highways in a given year than in Vietnam.  This just seems nutty to me 
unless you are going to argue that people are being killed on the highways 
intentionally.

My last $.02.

John

At 05:31 PM 9/22/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Someone told me that Hitler invented the freeway. If that is true, he may
>have killed more people with that than in gas chambers. Think about it. 2.2M
>in the US alone on the roads, 5 to 6M in the Holocaust over 14 countries.
>http://www.deathcamps.info/new_page_7.htm I'm not sure you can find another
>2.7 to 3.7 million road deaths outside the USA, but you might.


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