Quote: I don't believe or advocate the "sins of the father" thing.

You are a lying, hypocritical sack of pig shit, viz:

Quote:Remember: silence in front of crimes is contributing to the crimes.

Quote:Remember what your fathers did and you sang for

Boru

(May 14, 2020 at 7:53 pm)WinterHold Wrote: And when somebody reminds you of the filth your fathers did -and you kept as a legacy, doing the exact same-, you say they are "mentally ill".
And you wonder why Coronavirus hit you?

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Covid-19 is just the start, hopefully. Cleaning the filth you built

Ooooh! I love this "Sins of the Father" stuff! It's so Medieval. Hey Winterhold! Can you give us the Evil Eye over the internet? That would be cool too. Let us know if you do!!

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What did you do now Winterhold? : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_p...udi_Arabia Shame on you!

Suicide-by-mod in 5, 4, 3,...

Pity, the Arabs have some interesting ways to help a person onward.

We had a plan to firebomb tokyo with bats, too. Bats with little vials of incendiary. Different branches of the military traded the project back and forth to shuffle it's budget around. Called it the batcave. Setting fires was a thing. The japanese had a plan to use high altitude balloon bombs and favorable wind. It worked once. Didn't do much damage, but it did manage to kill a family picknicking in oregon.

Tokyo had military significance as a target. Strategic value. Similar to an attack on DC. If we're looking at firebombings and wondering about the legality or morality of it all, Dresden is probably a better example. No military significance. No strategic value. The brutality of that conflict, exemplified by these sorts of attacks (whether we think they were legal or justifiable or not) is what lead the western world to coalesce around a single narrative of minimum standards that we now call human rights.

You completely miss the mark with the idea that the west needs to be reminded of that past. Inexplicably so in the case of human rights. It's defined us, and while you may only be capable of seeing the golden age of your own cultures influence as a blameless paragon of governing principles, we in the west actually have learned from our history, so that it doesn't have to become our future.

War should suck.

Civilians should die

Women and children should die.

Politicians should die. (Lots of them)

If you make war "civilized" there's no disincentive to stop politicians from sending off the sons and daughters of the poor to fight.

The Japanese government made fatal decisions regarding the public. First, industry was to be moved into family homes wherever possible to decentralize production. Second, all males from 18 to 60 were now in the military, as were all females from 16 to 45. This made suburban areas legitimate targets of war.

Again, both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the governmental and military headquarters of their prefects, so "cut off the head" applies. One atomic bomb went off directly over 8,000 Japanese troops lined up for morning inspection. Single deadliest shot fired in military history.

Oh, and Nagasaki Armory produced the special torpedoes used at Pearl Harbor. Karma's a bitch.

It's interesting to consider. I wouldn't want to be the guy that had the job of going full kurtz.

(May 15, 2020 at 9:07 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It's interesting to consider.  I wouldn't want to be the guy that had the job of going full kurtz.

The military's job is to kill people and break things.

In the hope that they won't have to kill people and break things. Being on the pointy end of the stick means the military takes it on the chin for the folks back home. Kurtz was a comic book character.

Yo, WinterHold, you going thru a spring manic phase? It might be time to check in with your physician.

(May 15, 2020 at 9:11 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:

(May 15, 2020 at 9:07 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It's interesting to consider.  I wouldn't want to be the guy that had the job of going full kurtz.

The military's job is to kill people and break things.

In the hope that they won't have to kill people and break things. Being on the pointy end of the stick means the military takes it on the chin for the folks back home. Kurtz was a comic book character.

Less so in the book than in the film. A lot of horrific shit happened in Congo Free State, and the Kurtz character was inspired by the real behaviour of real loonies.

Boru