S. David Z. H.'s Comments
@The people who are impressed.
Of course it was impressive, and I get that you're wowed not by his ability to kill people, but his to actually hit them from that far. Still... I don't get it. See, I can't actually take the people out of the equation, and insurgent or not, I don't think loss of human life should be celebrated ...at least not so cavalierly.
For me the reaction of both the public and the media just goes to show that society is starting to fall into the same levels of perversion (psychological term, not the Christian meaning of the word) as the Roman empire before it fell.
Of course it was impressive, and I get that you're wowed not by his ability to kill people, but his to actually hit them from that far. Still... I don't get it. See, I can't actually take the people out of the equation, and insurgent or not, I don't think loss of human life should be celebrated ...at least not so cavalierly.
For me the reaction of both the public and the media just goes to show that society is starting to fall into the same levels of perversion (psychological term, not the Christian meaning of the word) as the Roman empire before it fell.
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And kids don't get hurt as easily as parents nowadays seem to think. Parents in the 60's would pretty much just kick their kids out in the morning and have them come back in time for dinner. The death tolls weren't as high as you might think. I actually had a similar upbringing, spending my first few years in a small "hamlet" right next to a beautiful forest reserve. I ran around in the woods all day, climbing mountains (pint-sized ones, but they seemed sizeable at the time)
and simply having fun. Only very rarely did I get hurt, but I *always* had fun.