funAtParties

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   by funAtParties 8y ago

   What I really come away from the impression veterans and civilians of the time give of, is simply that it was unsporting, undignified, and unfair. That, much more than it was punishingly cruel, in excess of death and dismemberment by other
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   by funAtParties 8y ago

   There's obviously a difference because people differentiate. Sorry, but I'm not buying it. In exactly the same way I don't differentiate between being maimed by a flamethrower, versus being maimed by battery aci
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   by funAtParties 8y ago

   I'll argue that the surviving people on the pointy end of the stick haven't thoroughly considered how pointy conventional aerial bombardment gets.
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   by funAtParties 8y ago

   There's another aspect to the sheer insanity of the period that probably would be worth exploring, if only it were possible. People were so mentally numbed and damaged by the carnage of the first world war, that the second world war wa
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   by funAtParties 8y ago

   Sometimes I think about aerial bombardment, and what that really meant during that period of conflict. When you think about the effort to concoct the compounds for the air war, and drop them on cities, with no guidance like lasers or anythi