Guns have taken away all the honor and nobility of war
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In 1994 the monkeys Had a war Instead of Dicks they Used Guns And the war ended faster
[QUOTE=mr apple;21921711]I don't see nukes flying around everywhere, Kymandu.
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Good point, although during small battles people just seem to be shooting from the hip, spraying and praying if you will.
Except for the snipers, they are badass.
[QUOTE=mapreader;21913027]It seems like guns have taken away all the honor and nobility of war. Where once it was heroic knights valiantly engaged in hand-to-hand fighting for their King or Queen, now it's just illiterate peasantry shooting each other from hundreds of metres away. No more strong castles and legendary sieges. No more Lords of the Realm on great horses charging headlong into the enemy. No more legendary swords made by master craftsmen. Sigh.
War has lost all its Romance.[/QUOTE]
Yeah cause maiming someone and splitting them from shoulder to hip with a blade was romantic :rolleyes:
[QUOTE=leadpumper;21913056]The people fighting wars may have thought they were honorable, but in the end, they're just murdering other idiots with the same idea.[/QUOTE]
Great job calling people idiots for risking their lives because they didn't really have a choice.
Most of you may not know this but a good percentage of the men that fought in WW2 only fought there for their families back home, not for politicians or their country.
Plus war improves our technology, it teaches us to appreciate life. Now-a-days if you put a bunch of teenagers in a war zone they won't last a day "omg this is bullshit i want my ipod". In WW2, EIGHT year old children had to scavenge for food and other shit to support their sick family members, they adapated to war in an amazing rate.
The only ones that actually fought for their country and its resources as well as their families are said politicians and high ranked officers.
Also, you can never truly judge a war and it's reasoning until you've actually experienced it. No website or book/diary can really describe how war is like. I'm not saying war is a good thing, but nor am I saying that it's a bad thing. It had it's major flaws but it also has its minor qualities and benefits.
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Ah thank you for correcting my minor spelling misstakes. English is not my native language.
Nothing noble about fighting for cowards.
Now fighting for your own personal gain now thats a different story.
Honour and notability, or precision warfare with 99.9% less casualties, a great R&D department, and less lying on the floor waiting for hours to die while your intestines spill out onto the grass?
Somehow I don't get the OP's point.
I would find less psychological burdens in spraying an M249 at a group of enemies than I would in personally decapitating each one with a broadsword.
[QUOTE=Kymandu;21922176]Good point, although during small battles people just seem to be shooting from the hip, spraying and praying if you will.[/QUOTE]
Does your whole knowledge of modern warfare come from watching Rambo and playing MW2? Because it sure looks like it.
OP:
War is never noble, I remember reading once about a medieval battle in which prior, the soldiers of one side drank from an infected river (they shat in it up the coast, then went down and drank. Derp.). They got diharreah, and fought pantless.
Quit playing Age of Chivalry.
There was almost never any honor or nobility in war. War is war, there is no rules or restrictions, although people try to make and enforce them, which I find amazingly stupid. War back then was just as dirty as it is now.
All's fair in love and war, get over yourself.
Go to Iraq with a sword.
I double dog dare you.
[QUOTE=Bletotum;21925544]OP:
War is never noble, I remember reading once about a medieval battle in which prior, the soldiers of one side drank from an infected river (they shat in it up the coast, then went down and drank. Derp.). They got diharreah, and [b]fought pantless[/b].[/QUOTE]
No shit? Oh god, i imagined the sausage fest... :ohdear:
War is hell. Always has been, always will be.
Being stabbed is a very, very unpleasant experience.
It's slow, you can see the weapon entering your body and you feel every inch of it...I would much rather be shot.
I like how everyone in this thread is pretty much saying the same thing.
But yeah, war was never noble.
[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;21926227]Go to Iraq with a sword.
I double dog dare you.[/QUOTE]
Oooooo, you have to now!
Hey, lets get Linelor to tell us what wars really like !
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Oh.
I don't think it's very noble or honorable to charge into another heir of enemy soldiers and maybe having a bit of luck, slashing one trooper and then getting brutally murdered by the rest of the enemies.
War is and will never be honorable. But due to it being the instinct of man, we cant avoid it.
War, War never changes....
I agree, guns have taken away all the honour and nobility of ruthlessly butchering human beings.
[QUOTE=lazyguy;21927470]I agree, guns have taken away all the honour and nobility of ruthlessly butchering human beings.[/QUOTE]
yeah why cut their head off when you can blow their head off
mind blowing technology hurr
war is about war not romance
There's still some honor in war if you look in the right places.
[QUOTE=MEME POLICE;21925784]There was almost never any honor or nobility in war. War is war, there is no rules or restrictions, although people try to make and enforce them[/QUOTE]
And of course it doesn't work. Like how chlorine gas was 'banned'. Except other countries, even ones that agreed, still use it. :v: .
Nobility what? Swords were just Guns Version 0.05
Yeah, I totally agree! I mean, we actually used to WRESTLE hunters down to the ground in my city!
There was never any honour in war, I think the fight scene between macbeth and Macduff shows this quite well.
Instead of a honourable sword fight the the finish(what op was thinking) it was basically a drunken fistfight.
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