All is fair in love and war

**sasguru** · 30 August 2013, 10:48

Originally posted by doodab View Post

War is a nasty business. Attempting to constrain human behaviour in wartime, or judge some methods of killing & maiming as better than others, are both futile and prone to make fools & hypocrites of us all.

Yes.
HTH.

**sasguru** · 30 August 2013, 10:53

Ok I'll play a bit.
Those who dispute the statement I agreed with above, probably will be the first to say that the use of atomic weapons on civilians saved thousands of military lives in WW2. So what's the moral beef about killing civilians horribly?*

*Just to make it clear I don't agree with this. Just noting that the hypocrisy of our approach to the Syria situation stinks to high heaven.

**KentPhilip** · 30 August 2013, 10:53

+1

All the guff introduced in pursuance of "rules of war" only constrain those who are not really at war.
At the end of the day such concepts as "the geneva convention", the "league of nations", and "the united nations" are powerless and irrelevant (the latter being shown in the past week with Cameron and Obama ignoring the United Nations and going to war with Syria in any case.

**MarillionFan** · 30 August 2013, 10:54

No kicking in the bollocks and no kicking a man when he's down. It's just not cricket.

**doodab** · 30 August 2013, 10:54

Chemical weapons, if done right, could result in quick and painless deaths. Surely that would be an improvement over maiming and burning people with high explosives and fast moving pieces of hot metal and rubble.

**EternalOptimist** · 30 August 2013, 10:56

Did you know, the stone age men used to make three types of arrow.

the first type was cylindrical, pointy and was used for training and target practice.

the second type was arrow headed shaped, but smooth. So that if you didnt kill the prey, the arrow would fall out so it could be recovered.

The third type was similar to the second except it had barbs. The barbs meant it would not come out. The only way to get it out was to cut a great big 'ole. It was designed to maximise the pain, suffering and death of the target. It was used aginst other stone age men.

**doodab** · 30 August 2013, 10:58

Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post

Did you know, the stone age men used to make three types of arrow.

the first type was cylindrical, pointy and was used for training and target practice.

the second type was arrow headed shaped, but smooth. So that if you didnt kill the prey, the arrow would fall out so it could be recovered.

The third type was similar to the second except it had barbs. The barbs meant it would not come out. The only way to get it out was to cut a great big 'ole. It was designed to maximise the pain, suffering and death of the target. It was used aginst other stone age men.

The modern bullet has a full metal jacket to reduce the probability of disintegrating and is designed to turn in the body to make a nasty hole. It's basically designed to maim rather than kill so that the enemy has to suffer the overhead of evacuating and treating their wounded.

**doodab** · 30 August 2013, 11:00

If it were me I'd mix the nasty tulip with laughing gas, MDMA or cocaine. At least they'd die with a smile on their faces.

**mudskipper** · 30 August 2013, 11:19

With great power comes great responsibility.

With no power the fridge doesn't work and the beer is warm.

All is fair in love and war