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Old 02-10-2015, 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by donquixote99 View Post
It has to do with your belief that a city should be burned, on grounds that they are less human than we are. The point is that humans everywhere are capable of extreme cruelty towards enemies they think deserve it. If that makes a group 'inhuman,' there are no humans on the planet.
Then pray tell me how else do you suggest we defeat them. I have tried too demonstrate that in war innocents suffer - but that was the only way to win the war. It is not a belief (at least not in how the OED describes belief) it is simply an effect of war. They will not come out and line up in the fields, that was the days of Napoleon and Wellington. In fact that lot over their seems to like using women and children as shields.

In case it is news I lived through WW II, saw all the newsreels, read the papers - it was not pretty.
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