I consider the matter to be obvious based on common sense. It’s plain that the comparison of MMM - a one-time tragedy - with the even some of the atrocities of the Nazis - a systematic genocide - is well beyond the pale. If you cannot agree on that point, then we have no common foundation from which to form an intellectual discussion on the topic.
I was not comparing Nazis to Mormons, and I apologize if I gave that impression.
I was comparing one event to another. It is interesting that you don’t want to discuss my comparison between events, only stating that the comparison isn’t valid.
You may be correct that we have little to say each other on the topic as you use the term “tragedy” to refer to the events at MM.
Dictionary.com definition: “A disastrous event, especially one involving distressing loss or injury to life: an expedition that ended in tragedy, with all hands lost at sea.”
There have been a number of extended discussions on FR about the appropriateness of using this term for the events of 9/11, which is common in the MSM. “Tragedy” is more appropriately used for something that happens outside human control, and it implies to some extent that no person or group of people is really responsible for what happened.
MMM, 9/11 and Lidice were not tragedies. They didn’t “happen.” They were all three planned in advance, orchestrated and perpetrated. Individual people were responsible.