I sometimes wonder if Europe and the world would now be a much better place if all the people killed in the two World Wars had lived and had children. if they wanted to which many would have liked to.
And of the 6 million Jews, the gypsies and the homosexuals killed by the Nazis had survived.Not to mention Russia’s losses and Stain’s victims in their millionsAnd then a man like Alan Turing was driven to suicide because he had consensual sex with a young man.What important contribution to Maths and Computing he would have made.The Middle East would not have been divided up between France and Britain and Palestine would have remained one country.
When I look at the political scene, I think ,possibly, the best people were wiped out.And we invented nuclear bombs
You might even think Hitler won the war seeing us now in our diminishment, our post-modern art of urinals and dirty beds and clanging noises with offensive words, our fundamentalist Christian beliefs and the belief most people are damned anyway except for our special group.And the fundamentalist atheists who long to destroy any religious belief of any kind
Were any Muslims of any type responsible for the 20th Century murders?Why do we think we are better?Europe conquered the world , stole treasures and enslaved black people.It will be hard for anyone else to do as many wicked things as our ancestors did.And we are so smug.We say they are in the Middle Ages and the modern era is so much better!
Did monarchs then have nuclear bombs?
And BTW how did they create beautiful buildings while we have the Carbuncle?We are so rich yet we make rubbish.We have lost our vision.Let’s see if we can do anything ourselves along with others near us to make a better and more beautiful human world
How my heart sings 
Let’s not forget Burke’s statement that “”The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”. I would emphasise the word “do”. Burke was sceptical of democracy partly because he realised that good Government requires both an intellectual grasp of issues and a willingness to choose a course of action and act upon it. We can’t just sit, wringing our hands over what is past, for good or ill.
Thank you so much for this thoughtful comment,Mike.I find what you wrote valuable.With an Election coming up, this may be a good time to see how we can influence things on our own areas and also to get a better grasp or the issues we and our children face in the next few years.Everything is changing so rapidly.Obama won in the USA partly by getting tiny amounts of money from a huge number of people.Our candidates don’t need money but we can for example get postal votes for ourself if we are away and ask older neighbours if they want assistance that way.
I also theink if more people knew about the barbarities we commited it might help stop them attacking every Muslim in sight.Which is illogical anyway.People are afraid and that makes for poor judgement.