(March 19, 2011 at 11:51 pm)Ubermensch Wrote:(March 19, 2011 at 1:03 am)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: Hitler occupied territories, he didn't exterminate those within. And he suffered endlessly from the intelligence and resistance provided by various underground members of the populace.
He certainly tried his hardest. Do you know just how difficult it is to exterminate huge numbers of people? If you were in a military organisation and you were ordered to massacre millions of civilllians, would you do it? Typically people don't like to indiscriminantly slaughter civillians, even if they did, it would take more effort than it is worth.
If I was in a military and I was given an order, would I complete it? Absolutely yes.
Because it is so hard to carpet bomb/haze an area? It's really not. It's discriminate killing that is hard to manage. The more effective the weapons: the easier it is to exterminate the pests. Get rid of as many as you can before they evolve a tolerance to your favorite brand of pesticide
Chuck Wrote:If I was in a military organization ordered to massacre millions of innocents out of policy, I do what I can to overthrow the leadership that tasked the military with such orders.
And that is why you don't recruit such idealists into the military. Drafts/conscription are bad if a loyal/effective military is what one desires. Discipline is vital in a military... if one does not posses this: they do not belong in a military.
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Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
