OT: Privatized War

[Unknown_Enemy]

Originally posted by Puke:
Vie Victis. When its someone with a bigger stick coming after me, you wont hear me complaining at the unfairness of the world - thats just the way things go.

It's Vae Victis. Not vie.
Then you're obviously the sort who would use Arnald Amalric's command when asked to sort innocents from heretics : "Kill them all, God will look after His own."

Animals behave the way you describe.
But from you that's not unusual.

[Fyron]

Humans are no more than animals, afterall...

[Puke]

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 ]

[Fyron]

edit: curst fyron beat me to it.

I like your response better.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

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

[Puke]

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.

[sachmo]

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.