(April 20, 2012 at 1:21 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Flocks of feasting crows and raiding Europe would be more or less macabre than nuclear weapons? People killing each other is a shitty business, regardless of the tools used.
Your "noble" turkish warriors are interchangeable with the pilots of the Enola Gay in this regard. Both were monsters to those they attacked.
You've made it a habit to appeal to hypocrisy when speaking about your ancestors, or your plans for the future. Do you know why that doesn't hold water (beyond it being an absolutely shitty argument in and of itself regardless of the subject)? Because you're the only one making excuses in either case. Show of hands, who extolls the virtues of the great and noble pilots of Enola Gay? -not this guy- You know we've always had mixed feelings about this, even before the damned bomb was dropped. But I bet you figured we were all just sitting here frothing at the mouth to annihilate a city. Why do you imagine we decided to give it the go?
That was me that posted it. XD
I was comparing the destruction that Mehmet states that his ancestors wrought with hundreds of thousands of horsemen against the destruction the US wrought with two bombs, and ultimately the horror that both wrecked upon other humans and how similar they are, and yet how different, too. His "noble warriors" he talks up were aggressors who followed an ideal eerily similar to what he refers to with his talk of unity and reclaiming bloodlines. The nuclear bombs were done in a last-ditch effort to prevent a protracted and expensive war that was going to cost millions more lives to end otherwise. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were horrible...but the alternative, while it may have been far less 'shocking,' would have, in the long term, been far more brutal.
The difference is that we ended a war we did not start. Mehmet's supposed "honorable warrior" ancestors started a war for their mere glory and legacy...as is what anyone who begins believing in an ideology of "legacies" and "glory" and "bloodlines" will inevitably do.
