I was watching a TV show about the Holocaust and it occurred to me that while the Jews and their families suffered great losses, the world in general lost. In 1939 there were 17 million Jews worldwide and by the end of the war there were only 11 million. Today there are about 15 million Jews and one third of those live in the United States.
Since 1901 there have been 850 Noble Prize winners and 170 of those were Jews. If those 6 million that died in the Holocaust had lived we could reasonable assume that we would have had 70 more winners. How can we ever calculate the loss to the world.
This leads me to wonder what the world has lost because of the 50 million abortions that have occurred since 1973 and that is just in the United States. Was there another Beethoven or Shakespeare or Einstein? Or maybe just a very kind person!
No way to have answers to these questions but it is stuff I think about
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