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Woah woah woah woah woah woah.

My points been proven wrong?

Back up a second, what is my point?

YOU tell me what my point is. because clearly, you don't understand me either.

My point is, people died who didn't deserve too. - thats pretty much it. Your gonna tell me different? please do.

Edit: I have never said that the "war on terror" was the right thing to do, i hate that as well, if i came across like that, i apologise, i don't endorse any wars of any kind.


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Beta_Krogoth wrote:
Saw your edit, like i said, i'm a eye for an eye, its justice at its most basic level. Thats just where me and you differ.
By your metric of justice, America has a lot more eyes to lose before justice is served.
Beta_Krogoth wrote:
What do you want me to say? I'm not dismissing your opinion! its got a hell of a lot of sense to it! and a better half of me says you. are. right. But then again, i see this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falling_Man and i think to myself, yeah, he got what he deserved.200 people jumped to their deaths. they jumped. do you not know how many people that is? i don't even want to think about it anymore. Disgusting.
You take an emotional reaction rather than a logical one. Napalm can burn for days while inside your bloodstream. Cluster munitions are banned, but loopholes allow allied countries to use them while stored in other nations. While occupying, allied soldiers have been known to rape everyone to children to the deceased. At least one private military company hired by the US government participated in child sex slavery while stationed in the middle east; after they did the same in north-eastern Europe. The number of civilian casualties suffered by allies is miniscule compared to the number of civilian casualties suffered by middle-eastern nations. The list goes on and on and on and on.
Beta_Krogoth wrote:
Oh yeah, it doesn't matter to me that it happened to america, like i said, i don't care about all that, its just the waste of life that pisses me off, if it happened to india, i'd still be pissed, don't think that i'm protecting america like a guard dog for the ♥♥♥♥ of it.
Then why are you ignoring human suffering all over the world caused by the US and focusing solely on 200 people?
Beta_Krogoth wrote:
On topic, i'm glad he's dead. he got exactly what he deserved and he should have died in the most painful way possible.

And the reason why america is so happy is because the "man" who killed thousands of innocent people finally got brought to justice. the familes of those who got killed can now finally put the subject to sleep. cheers!
It doesn't matter what your point is.
You clearly show that you think that the US is in a morally superior position to the point that they should have tortured him before he died.
You clearly show that you think that such atrocity renders you inhuman and thus makes it permissible to terminate your interminable human rights.
You clearly show that you think that since a single man is dead, everyone that matters has reached resolution.

Hundreds of thousands, if not millions can't put the subject to sleep, and it's not because there haven't been enough terrorist organisation members killed.
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Wait, so you're saying we shouldn't have gone after bin Laden? After finally finding him, wasting all those resources, we should've just done nothing? What the hell.
We're saying his death is nothing to celebrate, just like any human death.
Ociamarru wrote:
I mean, again, I'm not saying we're in the right what with the whole Zerg rush to the Middle East, but can't both sides be doing wrong? Just because we've ♥♥♥♥ up, doesn't mean that Osama bin Laden is some pinnacle of goodness whose death should be mourned because he struck back against his oppressors. The US making mistakes doesn't clear bin Laden's name in any way, he still did something horrible. Hell, if we tried him here he'd get the death sentence, anyway.
The US making mistakes doesn't clear him. It does mean that it's immensely hypocritical to say that what he did makes him inhuman and deserving of torturous death while completely ignoring any deaths that are not allied.
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EDIT: After reading those links, okay, the US ♥♥♥♥ up really bad. But again, that doesn't mean countries should just let terrorists bomb them, then give them a gift bag for it.
Nobody's saying that. We're saying trying to claim moral superiority is folly.


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@411570N3

1. agreed.

2. Yep, i'm sorry i find the deaths of those people emotion, maybe i'm just a soppy pussy who needs to man up eh?

3. Because those 200/3000 people aren't responsible for the ♥♥♥♥ ups of a nation they live in. Its the people in power that make those decisions, i don't have any problems with them being punished before you ask. - thats my main point.

oh, i didn't celebrate his death. i may have overreacted with my "died in the most painful way possible" comment, most people here have that view and i *may* have been spurred on... ONLY HUMAN!


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I don't see why I'm being put into some sort of idiot pool because I'm glad someone who was actively attempting to kill people in the US is now dead. How does that make me a narrow minded jingoistic zealot?


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Beta_Krogoth wrote:
1. agreed.
Then the US is not in a position to torture him to death then, as you originally suggested?
Beta_Krogoth wrote:
2. Yep, i'm sorry i find the deaths of those people emotion, maybe i'm just a soppy pussy who needs to man up eh?
If you want to do it based on emotional response, then do it properly. Read the long, long list of atrocities committed by allied forces in war before you respond.
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3. Because those 200/3000 people aren't responsible for the ♥♥♥♥ ups of a nation they live in.
Again, you only use the number of people that allies have lost, rather than the actual number of people that have died. This either implies you don't consider them important or that you don't consider them people.
Beta_Krogoth wrote:
Its the people in power that make those decisions, i don't have any problems with them being punished before you ask. - thats my main point.
You implied that torture to death is an admissible punishment in keeping with the supposed values of modern democracy.
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I don't see why I'm being put into some sort of idiot pool because I'm glad someone who was actively attempting to kill people in the US is now dead. How does that make me a narrow minded jingoistic zealot?
You are glad a human being is dead. You are glad that people you associate with were the ones to do it.


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What of us who think he should've been killed, but aren't exactly glad that it happened? Are we narrow-minded fools who only listen to the masses and are really rather foolish?


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I don't remember passing value judgements on people recently.
I don't remember having passed a value judgement on someone for a long time.


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1. like i said, overreaction, i didn't mean that, so no, your correct.

2. too painful... i'm just trying to keep it at a basic level, its the easiest way for me to deal with stuff like this.

3. because i'm keeping it to the 9/11 attacks as this is what i believe he should be brought to justice for.

4. i'm too tired to understand this right now... i'll come back in the morning and read it again.

5. i believe there is such a thing as looking too deeply into a situation, this may the case here.


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Nope, that's putting words in my mouth. I'm glad he's dead because he was killing people I associate with. I would have been happy if he'd been killed by any group of people.


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Beta_Krogoth wrote:
2. too painful... i'm just trying to keep it at a basic level, its the easiest way for me to deal with stuff like this.
Then you are taking the easy way out by ignoring non US deaths. I shouldn't have to explain why this is considered unacceptable in supposedly standard social norms.
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3. because i'm keeping it to the 9/11 attacks as this is what i believe he should be brought to justice for.
And you ignore the deaths that happened around Osama Bin Laden before he started killing. You ignore the deaths that happened that were supposedly towards the cause of bringing him to justice.
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4. i'm too tired to understand this right now... i'll come back in the morning and read it again.
You said Osama Bin Laden deserved the most painful death possible. Generally speaking, that would be torture to death. If you're going to deny someone human rights already, it is generally considered a courtesy to only deny them one right at a time.
Beta_Krogoth wrote:
5. i believe there is such a thing as looking too deeply into a situation, this may the case here.
It's looking too deeply into a situation to see that violent death is something to celebrate as long as the person was your 'enemy' and be worried? You can kill who you like and be fully supported as long as you say they were your enemy? That you could kill them by kicking them in the ribs until their rib cage perforates their lungs, making them slowly drown to death and people would still demand that you be more brutal, more cruel, that their death should have been more painful?
Tomaster wrote:
Nope, that's putting words in my mouth. I'm glad he's dead because he was killing people I associate with. I would have been happy if he'd been killed by any group of people.
The central point is that someone is dead and you believe that's something to celebrate.


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The people who have died as a result of our senseless occupation had nothing to do with any of the retarded politics that led to us being where we are. They didn't deserve to die because they were killed by a nation so overly consumed with greed and lust for power that it has become completely unsustainable on a local, much less a global, scale.

And really, did you miss this link entirely, or are you just incredibly thick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motives_fo ... 11_attacks

9/11 was not a random act of violence. It was a reactionary effect to American actions. Hell, you could even call 9/11 a retaliatory attack, though that may be going too far. Yet we often portray al Qaeda and Osama as being the great aggressors of this so-called "war on terror".

Tomaster: Just save us all some time by reading pages 9 through 11 of this thread but changing every instance of "Beta_Krogoth" to "Tomaster".

EDIT: Also, don't get me wrong, 9/11 is a tragedy and the people who died as a result of it are not at all responsible for their country's actions which led to their deaths. But they're not special or unique in any way. This kind of senseless violence occurs all over the world on a daily basis and on a larger scale. Americans love making a mountain out of a molehill when it comes to 9/11. They could have cared less if it happened to someone else. The point I'm trying to make is that the reason we have so much of this idiotic violence is because many people share Beta and Tom's view: "They killed us, so we'll kill them." God knows how or when this cycle started, on some dusty plain thousands of years ago with two tribes of cavemen arguing over a stick or something, but nobody is taking the initiative to end it, they're just inevitably perpetuating it by trying to be the last guys to get a kill in. THAT'S my problem with this whole "YAY OSAMA IS DEAD" point of view. Not the fact that you grieved for your innocent countrymen slain for reasons that they were not responsible for, or the fact that Osama wasn't exactly the most diplomatic individual, but because that attitude is sickening and most people think of it as being natural.


Now you are my hero AND I love you.

This is my friggen exact point of view.


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Yeah, I've been reading this little debate for a while now.
Beta_Krogoth, you should take a wider view.
You're forgetting all the deaths caused by the US that made Osama do what he did.


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Ok, i'll sum up my thoughts about everything right now, after considering what 411570N3 said (which made a lot of sense to me) i can see Osama was pushed into his actions and after seeing those figures that ragdoll sent in those links, i have changed my opinion of the US, thats for sure.

To be honest, i'm still totally divided, you keep measuring an entire continents evil doings against 1 mans, obviously, the US is going to come out worse in a situation like that, but then again, its not exactly like i can just go "ah well, you naughty USA! off you go!" the ♥♥♥♥ they've done is ♥♥♥♥ worse. Far worse.

At the moment, i think i'd like both parties to be brought to justice, how, i don't know, Osama has already done his part, unsure about the US however.


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And then you realize the world isn't fair.


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Homophanim wrote:
And then you realize the world isn't fair.

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