TheProdigy

"It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed..." Winston Churchill

Yeah, deffo.
I'll focus on politics, war, religion and Churchill when it comes to affect me directly in any way. Selfish perhaps, but fuck it, one life one shot, why bother worrying/focusing on shit that's been the same for lifetimes before you're born and lifetimes after.
Valtiel, are you german? You mentioned some stuff in the movies thread when Inglorious Basterds was mentioned, had me curious.

Please don't reply like a dick

I know you will though

Martinstatic wrote:


god no,

does your question mean we are supposed to study history only as a mean to provide moral equivalent for our ancestors' actions ?

Dresden got torched so that weighs against the evil of the nazis, right ?

Valtiel wrote:


No, we study history out of interest, to understand current affairs and made predictions.
Morals have nothing to do with it, that's a personal thing that we discuss history with, but they don't affect each other at all.
Your morals can't change history, nor should history change morals.
As for Dresden and Nazi's, I don't make any current moral judgements on shit like that. What Nazi's did was horrible, what was done to Dresden was horrible. Shades of grey, man, shades of grey

the phrase "moral equivalence" doesn't refer to personal morality

Right, but moral equivalence is bollocks. Morals are subjective, no matter what way you look at them..that said, I still stand by my choice to not look at history to get myself riled up over war atrocities and morals, instead I look at history out of interest. I think we have the brainpower to make our own moral choices without referring to history