2. Soldiers don’t hate (maybe fanatics & terrorists do). They respect their opponent and honour him (her). They don’t detest either. They see the game of war (love) and try to play as honourably as possible, although the stakes are high.
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Replying to @tomxhart
In the classical warrior tradition, yes. To that extent I concede the point—a date is like a classical duel. I suppose my view of war has been warped by the tendency in modern warfare to whip up mass emotion by propaganda (then again, that does tend to be for the civilians).
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Replying to @Konstant_V
I think people think too much about the Holocaust or the Gulag when they think of war. These were exceptional events. And even the totalitarians took prisoners (although the Germans & Russians effectively exterminated their respective captives—different on W. Front).
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Replying to @tomxhart
There’s that, yes—though those tended to be post-war images. I was thinking more along the lines of the Allied anti-German atrocity propaganda which was huge since back in WWI. Gotta get the home front to buy those ‘victory bonds’!pic.twitter.com/P6VwoVImVi
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Replying to @Konstant_V
The enemy is always a monster until you actually have to swing your sabre at him, as Bolkonski finds out in War and Peace. Then he’s just some scared Frenchy. Of course, sometime it turns out the enemy actually IS a monster. Luckyily, there are no propagandists for the sex war.
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Replying to @tomxhart
Really? I thought the ‘all men are rapists’ radfems partially fulfilled that role!
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Replying to @Konstant_V
There are no professional propagandists that compare with the mass mobilisation of an actual war.
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Replying to @Konstant_V
The number of feminists (themselves a tiny group) who believe all sex is rape is tiny, though. I also sort of think they have a point. I remember a video game when I was young called “Gender Wars” or “Sex Wars” that took the whole idea seriously.
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Replying to @tomxhart
Ha! I can scarcely imagine the fury of someone tries to make something like that today.
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