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thegoodjohn (August 26, 2008 at 4:07 pm)
As I said, there are simpler explanations for these things than relating it all to human nature and a leviathan and all that rot. Just remember that war follows it's own rules - humans have very little to do with it.
FabulousCow (August 26, 2008 at 12:19 am)
MCR's better.
Jacnas (August 24, 2008 at 10:31 pm)
But what do you think happens when one side wins? Today the winning side doesn't usually (USUALLY) murder all the prisoners (mostly because they wouldn't want their enemies do the same thing with their prisoners), pillage, murder and rape women.In China Mongols commonly slaughtered entire cities and burned everything to the ground to spread terror. Imagine what unimaginable devastation the Mongol Empire could bring with their "ethics" and today's technology!!!
thegoodjohn (August 24, 2008 at 2:10 pm)
Of course in reality decreasing casualty rates in conflict has nothing to do with us becoming more moral beings or the leviathan and has everything to do with the simple, empirical fact that increasing firepower decreases casualty rates. Since the Neolithic we have increased firepower, so it follows that casualty rates would decrease. There are a couple of other military science "laws" that are relevant but that one pretty much sums it up.
srylar (August 14, 2008 at 10:48 pm)
It never gets mentioned in any conversation about animal slaughter - the billions of innocent yeast cells that are enslaved by breweries around the world and massacred by heat pasteurizing machines. Say no to macro-brews!!! At what point does a life start to 'matter'?
RustyIronloins (August 13, 2008 at 7:33 pm)
I am sorry, but using the phrase "absolute terms" is meaningless. All it does is obfuscate the issue. If you were to offer alternative evidence, make premises, and finally construct an argument, I would take you a bit more seriously. But merely disguising your assertions as arguments by the use of vacuous language is specious at best.
yeahwotevaman (August 2, 2008 at 1:17 am)
Yes, the slaughter of animals is violence. What drugs?
pouyo3 (August 2, 2008 at 1:03 am)
Animal slaughter for food is comparable to human death? Please, get off the drugs.
livehappy4ever (July 31, 2008 at 4:17 am)
i wonder what goes through a humans head when he holds a gun up to another persons head. is it in their desicion to decide wther they live or die? that seems selfish. no matter how bad the victims actions are, that is still not right!
MaBu888 (July 29, 2008 at 8:40 am)
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