The examples you give are quite extreme and therefore not really very good analogies. I also do not agree that the actions mentioned in your examples were considered "perfectly acceptable at the time" in the same sense that I'm using that phrase. I'm using perfectly acceptable in a more universal sense as in nobody at the time thought that there was anything wrong with it. For example, very many Americans thought that rounding up citizens of Japanese ancestry and imprisoning them for the remainder of the war was an abominable crime against humanity...clearly not "perfectly acceptable" (nor even necessary, or expedient).
Again, I'm only saying that **some** behavior that was acceptable then is not acceptable now...some...not all. Much has not changed....and it is therefore, not always as it seems with these accusations - especially when we do not have all the facts. Again, I am not defending what DAH or anybody else has done or is alleged to have done. I'm just trying to urge a more critical thought process.
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