Juxtaposed evaporating 100k of the enemy against saving the estimated loss of 500k of your compatriots during an invasion.

The culture of the enemy isn't the same as yours. Read the Battle of Attu. The Japanese did a final charge only to be killed by the Americans.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Attu

 

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.

 

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..
(Tribalism by any other name)
Max.

 

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 Those four words have been replaced by hundreds of words in the USC that wish to accomplish to the same thing.

 

Morality is not ingrained, it's not in your DNA.

Science has shown otherwise, it is no point taking this further as far as I am concerned.
Max.

 

Secular dogma. The new tribe.

 

How bout this one......adjustable nuclear bombs.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/US-military-tested-second/2017/08/29/id/810562/

That's quite an adjustable range.

 

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.

 

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.

And extreme tribalism always ends in bigotry and exclusion....

 

They finally left Oregon.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4835434/Over-70-000-brave-fierce-dust-storm-Burning-Man.html

 

@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?

 

Hello,

How about a little teasing?
https://archive.org/details/Teaserama1955Trailer

Spoiler

Here is the full version:
https://archive.org/details/Teaserama

Bertus

 

Check this out.....bout an hour......but worth it.

Eat more chicken.

 

It seems that mosquitoes have become a protected species:

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/08...-guys-twitter-account-permanently-frozen.html​

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.

 

it appears an automated program flagged the account by searching for certain words and phrases.

A "bug" in the program?

 

A "bug" in the program?

Maybe the program considered that even mosquitoes have the right to due process of the law before being executed...

 

Maybe the program considered that even mosquitoes have the right to due process of the law before being executed...

It was the endangered species list that was the problem.

 

It was the endangered species list that was the problem.

From Lilo and Stitch:

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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/colombia/article170345577.html

http://miguelcaballerofashion.com/index.php?route=collection/collectionpage

http://blog.dupontregistry.com/the-lifestyle/gear/the-x-shirt-amendment-ii/

 

I'm gonna stick this here......I thought it was weird when I first heard this, but it's really kinda sad.

I had to have a window replaced due to some tree damage. The tech did a superb job....in good time.

As he was leaving he mentioned that this job was a welcome break. We asked him what he meant. He said he hardy ever fixes a normal broken window anymore. I asked him why....and he told us that he spends all his time replacing windows due to gunshots. We couldn't believe it....but he assured us it was true.

Do you remember bout 10 years ago....maybe more......of the audio gun shot detectors to be put in high crime areas? They were suppose to record the time and direction of gunshots. It didn't work out too well on the direction aspect. A multiple echo problem I believe.

Maybe a monthly window count would be a good crime parameter. Not real time.....but shows illegal gun activity.

I certainly didn't know it took a full time tech for gunshots.....in a city this size. Makes me wonder if the crime reporting statistics are accurate.