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oh bah, sticks and stones. if we are name calling now then your folly sir, is hubris. humans are no more than animals, and animals no more than the sum of their constituant parts.

since the vast majority of mater is empty space, i submit that by extension you are nothing.

now cry havoc, and unleash the creationist activists!

edit: curst fyron beat me to it.

[ May 07, 2004, 21:00: Message edited by: Puke ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I like your response better. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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If humans are nothing more than animals, why do I care what happens to antelope?

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why do wolves care what happens to their children? you are a mass of chemical reactions which have conspired to produce a set of memories leading to a single point in time. nothing more, and nothing less. what you percieve as 'caring' is nothing more than the consequence of a series of subatomic interactions.

oh, and while im being a jackass, i should disclaim that i have nothing but respect for Unknown Enemy, he is a far greater man than i, his spelling is better, as his command of Latin.

Now ENOUGH of this tom-foolery, and back to the discussion of the ethics and sociological consequences (good or bad) of using mercenaries or private armies. Debers (the dimond company, if i didnt spell it right) has had a standing army for years. We have used real military forces in banana-republic secnarios for the express benefit of private companies and individuals.

where do we draw the line? which side of the line are you on? I know where I am, but I am still not telling you wither or not Im joiking about it.

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I think mercenaries should just pretend that they are fighting each other, then they could charge their clients a lot more money and everyone would get rich. Then, at the end, they could just stick out their tongues and shout "Fight your own bloody wars!" and run off to Mexico or Jamacia or Italy and soak up some rays and have some nice food and buy some gifts for their relatives. Then maybe their clients would ask, "What were we fighting for, anyway?" and then peace would come to man. Or they would start fighting again when they remembered, and the whole cycle would begin agin.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It's very conveinent and easy for you to say this because you live in a country where, at least for the most part, there are laws to prevent just exactly that from happening. I suspect that if someone really came to your house with a big stick and told you to leave we'd actually hear quite a bit of complaining from you.

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He was talking more along the lines of an invasion by another power, not just some random schmuck coming up to him...

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i live in the San Francisco tenderloin, theres nothing BUT random schmucks here. transvestites and crackheads are dangerous individuals, and rather dangerous in Groups.

My point is not that i wont put up a fight - which i will - but that i wont bemoan how unfair the world is after i lose.

now thats not to say that i dont endorse retribution, either. if someone broke my knee one morning, im not above shooting them in the back the next night.

I fully expect that cultures whom dont like our presence will cary on guerella actions against our occupation forces. I just dont like listening to people piss and moan about how unjust the world is that some folks are being oppressed.