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I get what you're saying, but your tone here is pretty hostile here and you don't seem to acknowledge that the point you're making is in perfect agreement with

I get what you're saying, but your tone here is pretty hostile here and you don't seem to acknowledge that the point you're making is in perfect agreement with the post you're responding to. You quoted him just before he said, "[This] is, of course, nonsense."

jacquesm 12y ago
Stating something first and then negating it in the same comment is a pretty weird way to make a point.
- treerock 12y ago
  Basically an oxymoron. Shakespeare loved them [1] [1] http://kerbev.hubpages.com/hub/shakespeare-oxymorons http://kerbev.hubpages.com/hub/shakespeare-oxymorons
nothrabannosir 12y ago
Did he edit his comment after you replied? I totally agree with what he said to GP: "don't include me in your 'we think war machines are cool.'" That's bad form in general, doubly so on this touchy subject.
- presidentender 12y ago
  Is a train cool? A Saturn V rocket? A 3d printer? I think so. The same factors that make machines cool remain intact regardless of the application. Furthermore, there's much more kinetic energy involved when you're trying to take something apart quickly than when you're trying to carefully build it, and more still when someone else is trying to keep the thing intact. Is a controlled demolition cool? If not, why do people watch? Nobody is arguing in favor of violence. The comments here are recognizing some of the reasons why war seems cool, especially to the young and especially to men.
willholloway 12y ago
The way Americans treat war and violence as entertainment is disturbing to him, as he has been at the other end of it. I've read an interview of a war correspondent that after witnessing war can no longer enjoy war entertainment, as it is disgusting to him. I think hostility towards an attitude that takes inflicting death lightly, for entertainment is justified.
- scott_s 12y ago
  Understood. But that is actually scrrr's point. But scrrr was making it in a way that explains why people who have not experienced war and violence use it as entertainment.

jacquesm 12y ago

Stating something first and then negating it in the same comment is a pretty weird way to make a point.

treerock 12y ago
Basically an oxymoron. Shakespeare loved them [1] [1] http://kerbev.hubpages.com/hub/shakespeare-oxymorons http://kerbev.hubpages.com/hub/shakespeare-oxymorons

nothrabannosir 12y ago

Did he edit his comment after you replied? I totally agree with what he said to GP: "don't include me in your 'we think war machines are cool.'" That's bad form in general, doubly so on this touchy subject.

presidentender 12y ago
Is a train cool? A Saturn V rocket? A 3d printer? I think so. The same factors that make machines cool remain intact regardless of the application. Furthermore, there's much more kinetic energy involved when you're trying to take something apart quickly than when you're trying to carefully build it, and more still when someone else is trying to keep the thing intact. Is a controlled demolition cool? If not, why do people watch? Nobody is arguing in favor of violence. The comments here are recognizing some of the reasons why war seems cool, especially to the young and especially to men.

willholloway 12y ago

The way Americans treat war and violence as entertainment is disturbing to him, as he has been at the other end of it. I've read an interview of a war correspondent that after witnessing war can no longer enjoy war entertainment, as it is disgusting to him. I think hostility towards an attitude that takes inflicting death lightly, for entertainment is justified.

scott_s 12y ago
Understood. But that is actually scrrr's point. But scrrr was making it in a way that explains why people who have not experienced war and violence use it as entertainment.