IS/Daesh Burn POW Alive

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by merrylander

I will give you a parallel - if I find termites in my house's main beams should simply ignore them or call the Orkin Man.

The ability to dehumanize their enemies is what enables Daesh to treat them as they do.

John

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by merrylander

DQ stop with phoney attempts at parallels, the Branch Davidians were fruit cakes but hardly anything approaching the evil that is IS.

Read what I posted. It wasn't about the branch Davidians. It was about the brutal lynching of a black man. ISIS does not have a monopoly on barbarism.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Boreas

The ability to dehumanize their enemies is what enables Daesh to treat them as they do.

John

Surely you do not consider them to be human? The way people in this group are reacting all I can say is thank God y'all were not around in the 40's or we would have lost that damn war.

Perhaps you have this beautiful picture of how the bombs only took out factories, and then only at night when no one was in them. Or that the flames in Dresden only killed enemy soldiers. And that the blown up dams never drowned women and children because they all swam to safety.

meh

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by merrylander

DQ stop with phoney attempts at parallels, the Branch Davidians were fruit cakes but hardly anything approaching the evil that is IS.

I will give you a parallel - if I find termites in my house's main beams should simply ignore them or call the Orkin Man.

ISIL was responsible for Kayla's death because she would not have been in harm's way had they not kidnapped her. She went to that Godforsaken hole to help and this was her reward.

Who said anything about the Branch Davidians? I was referring to the 1916 burn-alive torture lunching of Jesse Washington. Go up a few posts and read Tom Joad's post about it. You might even follow the link and read the whole story. Or, close your eyes and stick your fingers in your ears.

Thousands of people spectated and cheered the barbequing of Washington. Are you willing to say that Waco deserved to be firebombed to wipe out these evil people?

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Surely you do not consider them to be human? The way people in this group are reacting all I can say is thank God y'all were not around in the 40's or we would have lost that damn war.

Perhaps you have this beautiful picture of how the bombs only took out factories, and then only at night when no one was in them. Or that the flames in Dresden only killed enemy soldiers. And that the blown up dams never drowned women and children because they all swam to safety.

meh

Mass murder justifies other mass murder? Go run that one past your priest.

Are you human? You want people burned to death....

[bobabode]

Speaking of logical fallacies...

What in the world would you (Don and Tom) have done re: the Axis vs. the Allies in WWII?

[bobabode]

Kayla Mueller is confirmed dead. Daesh sent pictures of her body to her parents.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...y.html?hpid=z1

[whell]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Mass murder justifies other mass murder? Go run that one past your priest.

Are you human? You want people burned to death....

Would you bring a fountain pen to a gun fight?

These folks are at war with us, whether we want to admit it or not. They're killing anyone and destroying anything that they don't happen to like. There's no reasoning or negotiating with folks like this.

So how would you propose they be dealt with? Frankly, I suspect its past due for this bunch and anyone in league with them to reap what they've sewn.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Boreas

The ability to dehumanize their enemies is what enables Daesh to treat them as they do.

John

True but it's the actions of Daesh that are dehumanizing us. It's a calculated, sick and terrible choice being forced on the rest of humanity by these barbarians.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Surely you do not consider them to be human?

Of course. What are they if not human? They're unimaginably sick and evil but only humans are capable of this sort of immorality.

My point is, when we allow ourselves to believe that people like those in Daesh are less than human, we have begun the process of becoming just like them.

Perhaps you have this beautiful picture of how the bombs only took out factories, and then only at night when no one was in them. Or that the flames in Dresden only killed enemy soldiers. And that the blown up dams never drowned women and children because they all swam to safety.

meh

Do I take this to means that the Allies, including your beloved Canadians, are "termites" too?

Don't be stupid, Rob.

John