In Auschwitz the B is written mirror image supposedly as a warning to newcomers.  

I think I might see what you are getting at, Russell.  Say for instance a very evil regime invented the transistor and did so at the expense and suffering of millions, would it be wrong to use that technology?  Like with the medical experiments?  

I find this could be an interesting discussion, but I fear it will go political very soon, and I expect James is about ready to kibosh it anyway.

Lindy

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I've visited Dachau (but not, yet, Auschwitz). Terrible reminder. The
first but by no means the worst of the 'camps'. I've noted the lying *
"ARBEIT MACHT FREI" in wrought iron on the gates, [been possibly the
only person to have ever] climbed the wall and crossed the barbed wire
to get *into* the Dachau gas chamber enclosure [therein lies a story],
....

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