Really?
On Jun 14, 3:52�am, Vamadevananda <[email protected]> wrote:
> We did have just that, Gruff, till mere couple of centuries before !
> Since then, we seem to have evolved, become more ' civilised,' �or
> simply �' chickened ' �out of such crude brutality.
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> On Jun 14, 4:17�am, gruff <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > I have always thought war a fearsome nightmare and often wondered why
> > it had rules. �Perhaps if war were less humane and more gruesome, kill
> > or be killed till there's no one left standing, slaughtering men,
> > women and children without recourse, destroying, obliterating each the
> > other, poisoning the water and the land, laying a wide swath of
> > devastation scattering body parts across the blood soaked landscape,
> > burning houses and crops, schools and churches, then perhaps we might
> > have less of it.
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> > On Jun 13, 2:42 pm, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > That was my intention to make you laugh! �Yeah right! �Perhaps I
> > > wasn't clear enough but...............
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> > > I'm very well aware of the Geneva Convention, the Hague, and the
> > > signators of the treaties and the �protocol, �but that is not what the
> > > thread is about. � No where near what I was thinking.
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> > > Unfortunately, you are not grasping the intended inquiry of the thread
> > > and from what I've noticed in other threads, it's not the first time
> > > for you. �This thread is aside from any treaties but more so about the
> > > "Why" of such a treaties. � This is about the psychology �behind the
> > > designing of such a treaty and what seems to me to be a quirk in the
> > > process of war. �The objective is to kill the enemy, or is it?
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> > > We go from Killing to Humanitarianism, and so I'm simply asking why?
> > > I just see such a stark contrast. �If we are so concerned in
> > > humanitarianism then why do we even bother engaging in wars that are
> > > in the extreme sense the total and complete opposite?
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> > > We bomb a city killing thousands then go in and shoot anything that
> > > moves, and then later, we treat the prisoners in a humanitarian way,
> > > the prisoners that given the opportunity would blow your head clean
> > > off.
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> > > I hope that clears it up but anyway thanks for the laugh!!- Hide quoted
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