Klaus Filbinger Quotes
What was right yesterday can't be wrong today.
Context
Arguing against moral and legal judgment of Nazi war criminals:
Topics
Ethics
Flexibility
Germany
Law Enforcement
Moral Relativism
War Criminals
Holocaust
Impermanence
Perspective
Variability
Shifting
Evolving
Changing Values
Ethical Ambiguity
Moral Flexibility
Mutability
Relative Truth
Shifting Norms
Social Construct
Time Sensitivity
Transience
Value Judgment
Contextual Ethics
Citations
Klaus Filbinger, Governor of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany and Judge in Nazi Germany, Quoted in New York Times, October 6, 1991
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