And now for something weird...

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
16,330
I think that you are missing the greater point!
But apart from that, personally if I had been the cause of evaporating over 100,000 people I think it would have weighed just somewhat on my conscience.:rolleyes:
Max.
I understand the possible deeper point but to equate similarity in some abstract sense is IMO sophistry because of the actual threat from one group vs the other (Jews).
 

BR-549

Joined Sep 22, 2013
4,931
I guess no one cares about the millions of Japanese we saved from a year of fire bombing before an invasion.

The planned fire bombings for these cities would have cost many more lives. We had huge modern bombing fleets in production for this purpose.

There is no comparison. When it comes to nuclear weapons........we are way in the black. In other words....it has...so far.....saved millions and millions of lives.
 

MaxHeadRoom

Joined Jul 18, 2013
30,674
Juxtaposed evaporating 100k of the enemy against saving the estimated loss of 500k of your compatriots during an invasion.
Sure, any red blooded american would (justify) say the same.
I was really referring to the Human condition in general.
I can probably give you any justification for any conflict, 20th century or otherwise, if I side one way.
What if you belonged to a previously esteemed and successful nation and were living on the bread line and did not know where the next meal was coming from, you got paid on a daily basis because at the next day your wages were worth half due to devaluation of the currency, you Literally took a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread.
This is actually happened, so when someone comes along and promises you that he will make the country great again, what have you to lose.?
Even though his name was Adolph Hitler.:rolleyes:.
(Tribalism by any other name)
Max.
 

JoeJester

Joined Apr 26, 2005
4,390
Morality is not ingrained, it's not in your DNA. Hammurabi set forth the codes he expected, and others have follow suite since that time. Hitler's morals are not my morals. You could have used any example, up to and including ISIS. What is their moral code?

Morals are a political body of beliefs. You may have some that coincide with mine. You may have some that coincided with Hitler. I don't know. I'm sure yours run afoul of Hitler's well known distasteful agenda.

The ten commandments are a type of moral code. Thou shall not kill. Those four words have been replaced by hundreds of words in the USC that wish to accomplish to the same thing.
 

shortbus

Joined Sep 30, 2009
10,050
That has to be one of the most perverse rationals I ever heard. That is not intellect. Trying to equate the motives of those events is pure political propaganda. Don't care to watch or read it.

Tribalism and nationalism is the ONLY environment/system that diversity can exist in.

Nationalism is the result of peace....a result of diversity/differences.....not the cause of war.

Edit: Tribalism IS diversity. Where does the diversity come from. A planetary distributor?
Do you read what you post? The only way a "tribal" group throughout history has "diversified" is through enslavement of peoples of another "tribal" group.
 

JoeJester

Joined Apr 26, 2005
4,390
@MaxHeadRoom

Science is rarely settled. The scientific method discourages settlement. Columbia University has an essay identifying genetics as a factor, not the whole.

Has someone identified a racism gene or a gene attached to other morally questionable behavior? One gene that guarantees the person will commit a morally objectional behavior. We can go with 99.99 percent as the standard if you wish, so we can allow for errors. I doubt the body politics would like 1 in a 1000 errors.

What should we do if that were true?
Should we mandate dna testing at birth and do a fourth trimester abortion?

Can dna be a factor? Sure. Is the science settled? No.

Would you have the political wherewithall to terminate those with dna predispositions for morally objectional behavior?
 
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cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
8,768
It seems that mosquitoes have become a protected species:


A Japanese man recently found his Twitter account permanently frozen after tweeting a violent message alongside a picture of a corpse: "Bastard! Where do you get off biting me all over while I'm just trying to relax and watch TV? Die! (Actually you're already dead)," wrote the user formerly known as @nemuismywife.
One thing to mention, though, that Twitter apparently did not realize: He was talking about a mosquito, which is also what his picture showed. As RocketNews24 reports, it appears an automated program flagged the account by searching for certain words and phrases.
 
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