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Originally posted by mookie1995bc is superior to bu in nearly everything. while it is sad that it has come to it, it's the truth. if bu doesn't like it, improve.
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Why is anyone surprised that Old Pio is acting like a grumpy old f^ck? He is a grumpy old f^ck.
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Originally posted by Timothy A View PostIt comes down to state of mind. Hasan knew exactly what he was doing, that is as obvious as a WCHA ref knowing what a goal is, oh wait, bad example. Anyway, he knew what he was doing.
Bales I am not convinced he knew what he was doing with the PTSD issue. PTSD shuts off filters in your head and you can do things that your head would normally filter out as a bad idea. He could be simply using PTSD as an excuse, as Hasan is with his sanity, but the medical folks have to determine the truth, which with mental issues can be different shades of grey.
Old Pio......Value of human life.....I fully support in wartime to kill as many enemy as possible to spare American lives, but that is the only instance where one could support that. What Bales and Hasan did was not under this pretense, it was flat out murder. Life is life, I cannot fathom how someone can sit here and sanely (I'm giving you an out here) say an American life is worth more than a Japanese or Afgan life, or a Catholic life worth more than a Protestant. That thought is the very genesis of every instance of genocide the world has ever endured.
You aren't going to bill me for that diagnosis, are you "Dr." And while you were going down your PC checklist, you forgot white life over black life, straight life over gay live, male life over female life, etc. How clever, in one breath you reluctantly concede I may be sane. But in the next, inferentially suggest I think like Pol Pot. In its simplest terms, my argument is that context matters in judging the value of a human life. And you seem to agree. But you also apparantly don't want to pass up an opportunity to do a little preening.Last edited by Old Pio; 03-24-2012, 02:46 PM.2011 Poser of the Year & Pulitzer Prize winning machine gunner.
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Originally posted by Gurtholfin View PostImagine the scene...
Children and mothers begging for their lives. Children not understanding why this is happening. Mothers watching their kids murdered in front of their eyes.
Are you serious or just a seriously flawed human?
If it comes down to soldier versus soldier, I want us to win. Decisively. If we could win 15,000 - 0, I'd be happy as a clam.
US Soldier murdering (not talking an accident here) civilians = US Soldier murdering anyone else including other soldiers.
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Originally posted by Old Pio View PostLet me give you an example. In the closing days of the war in the Pacific we conducted massive B-29 raids over Tokyo, which killed tens of thousands of civilians. Because of Japanese intransigence following the Pottsdam Declaration, we dropped two nuclear weapons, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which also killed tens of thousands. But the lives of countless thousands of our fathers and grandfathers were spared as a result, because the Japanese threw in the towel and we didn't have to invade Honshu. And if the Japanese had refused to surrender after the first two nukes, I would have waited 'till we built some more and kept right on dropping them. In that circumstance, I value the lives of our GI's higher than the lives of the Japanese civilians. And the fact that Fat Man and Little Boy also probably saved countless Japanese lives that would have been lost attempting to repel an invasion is what they call lagniappe in Louisiana.
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Originally posted by Gurtholfin View PostBigger betrayal? Sure.
Worse to kill and American than an Afghan? Murder is murder.Having a clear conscience just means you have a bad memory or you had a boring weekend.
RIP - Kirby
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The most terrifying thing about this thread is mookie did not include the notice that unless we pass it on to ten of our own friends, we will become Muslim.
I'm afraid we're all in the soup, now.Cornell University
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Originally posted by Kepler View PostThe most terrifying thing about this thread is mookie did not include the notice that unless we pass it on to ten of our own friends, we will become Muslim.
I'm afraid we're all in the soup, now.MTU: Three time NCAA champions.
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