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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!mtu.edu!bacon
- From: bacon@mtu.edu (Jeff Bacon)
- Subject: Re: Chivalry and Honor...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.215123.5251@mtu.edu>
- Organization: Michigan Technological University
- References: <phantasm.726032401@vincent1.iastate.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 21:51:23 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <phantasm.726032401@vincent1.iastate.edu> phantasm@iastate.edu () writes:
- >>>> There are Gentleman's virtues that wouldn't help them being a good officer
- >>>> when dealing with the Enemy. Such as politeness, courtesy, fairness,
- >>>> honesty, kindness and mercy.
- >>> Today, perhaps very true... To my mind, also very unfortunate...
- >> not necessarily. certainly not always.
- >Not neccessarily true, or not necessarily unfortunate?
-
- that is not necessarily true.
- it all depends on the individual person. as it always has.
- we just romanticize those figures in the past who displayed them.
- and perhaps attribute them to ppl who didn't necessarily have them.
-
- >> are things really so different? and was it truly so back then? did
- >> was honor and politeness not a hindrance then too? and do you really
- >> think there were no unscrupulous people back then?
- >> I don't think humans have really changed all THAT much.
- >Certainly humanity has not changed that much, but I think human attitudes
- >have changed... Certainly, the ease and cleanliness with which we can deal
- >destruction today, and the lengthening of our lifespans have influenced our
- >perceptions of war...
-
- better living thru technology!
-
- seriously. if they had the kind of weapons we have now back then,
- don't you think they would have used them?
-
- and certainly our longer lifespans have an effect. we live longer.
- which means dying in a war means we lose more. so we try to avoid it more.
-
- -bacon
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