The Death of Respect

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Violence is violence.

I'll never compromise on that.

So you never think it is justifiable in any scenario?

[HoreTore]

So you never think it is justifiable in any scenario?

Nope.

[FactionHeir]

So you'd be all nice to a terrorist and not even touch him if he threatens to blow up the building your family is in?

[HoreTore]

So you'd be all nice to a terrorist and not even touch him if he threatens to blow up the building your family is in?

Who cares about terrorists? Since when did they become a threat to me?

[Husar]

Who cares about terrorists? Since when did they become a threat to me?

Typical HoreTore "argument", if I run out of arguments, I'll just say the argument from the other side is irrelevant.
How about antibiotics? Did you know taking antibiotics is violence towards bacteria?
And not taking them means your body will kill even more itself, most likely.
Are you a vegetarian? Or is that violence not violence? Or do you make a compromise there?

[HoreTore]

Typical HoreTore "argument", if I run out of arguments, I'll just say the argument from the other side is irrelevant.
How about antibiotics? Did you know taking antibiotics is violence towards bacteria?
And not taking them means your body will kill even more itself, most likely.
Are you a vegetarian? Or is that violence not violence? Or do you make a compromise there?

Since when did I care about other species? I'm a farmers son, remember

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Who cares about terrorists? Since when did they become a threat to me?

Ok, man breaks into your house, goes for a knife to kill your mother.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Ok, man breaks into your house, goes for a knife to kill your mother.

You could set yourself on fire as a means of peaceful protest... then if you managed to run at him it might even scare him away...

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

You could set yourself on fire as a means of peaceful protest... then if you managed to run at him it might even scare him away...

Nah, I'd just put my hands together and he would be struck by lightening.

[HoreTore]

Ok, man breaks into your house, goes for a knife to kill your mother.

That won't ever happen either.

You see, the best solution to any such situation, is to make sure they never happen. As my officers told me in the army, if we come under attack, then there's no point trying to defend ourselves, we might as well lie down and die, it's our own bloody fault for being dumb enough to come under fire.

[Reverend Joe]

That won't ever happen either.

You see, the best solution to any such situation, is to make sure they never happen. As my officers told me in the army, if we come under attack, then there's no point trying to defend ourselves, we might as well lie down and die, it's our own bloody fault for being dumb enough to come under fire.

wow.

[Rhyfelwyr]

That won't ever happen either.

You see, the best solution to any such situation, is to make sure they never happen. As my officers told me in the army, if we come under attack, then there's no point trying to defend ourselves, we might as well lie down and die, it's our own bloody fault for being dumb enough to come under fire.

How on earth can you know for sure that you're house won't get burgled? It happens all the time to people, no matter how careful they are, unless you live in a fortress a burglar could always find a way in.

Don't dodge the question... if someone is about to stab your mother, and you could stop them through violence, then what would you do? Tell your mother she should have been more careful and that it's her fault she's getting stabbed?

[Crazed Rabbit]

That won't ever happen either.

You see, the best solution to any such situation, is to make sure they never happen.

And, apparently, vehemently deny reality when they do.

And really, your army officers said that?

CR

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

That won't ever happen either.

You see, the best solution to any such situation, is to make sure they never happen. As my officers told me in the army, if we come under attack, then there's no point trying to defend ourselves, we might as well lie down and die, it's our own bloody fault for being dumb enough to come under fire.

You can't make sure it will never happen. So buck up and answer the question, or just admit you have chosen an indefensible position.

As to your officers, either they were incompetant, you are misrepresenting what they said or you failed to learn the lesson. If any officer were to say such a thing in the British army his meaning would be, "you are [blank] useless", at which point he would still expect his men to slaughter the enemy.

[Banquo's Ghost]

As my officers told me in the army, if we come under attack, then there's no point trying to defend ourselves, we might as well lie down and die, it's our own bloody fault for being dumb enough to come under fire.

I wish I had tried that one on my battery!

What did they issue you with guns for, do you think? Decoration?

[Husar]

You see, the best solution to any such situation, is to make sure they never happen. As my officers told me in the army, if we come under attack, then there's no point trying to defend ourselves, we might as well lie down and die, it's our own bloody fault for being dumb enough to come under fire.

Going by that one story you told me about a certain exercise, I might have told you the same thing.