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Humans kill people. Always have, always will. Only the most facile could possibly believe this or any war machine is "just to kill people".

• fapjacks 12y ago
  Yes, but there's a reason the US government won't let me drive an M1 to work. Which is unfortunate, because I would love to. I'm just saying, let's not make inaccurate assertions about the purpose of some of our tools.
  • njharman 12y ago
    You're being beyond facile. The other purposes wasn't driving your ass to work. Rather - Deter war - Protect people from being killed - Provide strength to negotiations / treaties - Liberate conquered people
    • fapjacks 12y ago
      As someone with a lot of combat experience, all of those things you listed are a subset of same purpose as "kill people". You seriously just wrote "liberate conquered people" with a straight face implying that it doesn't involve killing people. These are tools of force specific to the physical and psychological domination of an opponent. You're reducing this to semantics, and you know I'm right.