(December 6, 2016 at 1:19 am)Orochi Wrote:(December 6, 2016 at 1:17 am)wallym Wrote: Does what Syria and Russia are doing to those people seem out of character with the history of humanity?
It's kind of silly. America is here because our ancestors killed a lot of people. A LOT of people. And once they got everything they wanted, and were on top of the world, they said "Alright! Time Out! Killing's bad. Everybody has to be nice now!"
Indians: Now that you guys admit conquering is bad, can we have our land back.
US: Sorry buddy, that was before we called timeout on conquering.
US: *TIME IN!* invades Iraq *TIME OUT*
Syria: Doh! You guys are very quick with your times ins and outs!
again appeal to historic precedent won't help you here
Especially terrible precedent.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'