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Originally posted by Seaver
No, the US aircraft carrier is the most dangerous 4acres of land on the planet. Enormous steam generators, 2 nuclear reactors, millions of gallons of highly refined aviation fuel, tons and tons of highly explosive ordinance, nuclear missles/bombs (yeah they still carry them just in case), flight deck tossing/catching aircraft at +200mph, jet engines that suck people right in (and sometimes out), and prop planes that will do the same.... I could go on.
So yeah, it's not exactly safe... watch the video of the USS Forestal... there's a reason it's known to sailors as the USS Forestfire since then. A missle loaded onto an A-4 attack plane fires off on its own, hits another A-4 fully loaded with fuel/bombs... starts a chain reaction with all of the other attack planes and almost sinks the entire ship.
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I stand corrected.
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origionally posted by thejoker130
Add all that up to the fact that I beleive in a little something called the sanctity of life. The man that you're going off to kill is just that a man, a human being. If you're able to rationalize the taking of another human life down to the fact that he speaks another language and is from a country that does not recognize McDonalds as the finest thing since we learned how to breath then you are one cold heartless motherfucker and I personally dont care to share the same zip code as you.
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From what I've heard both by reading accounts of war written by soldiers, and speaking directly to them, it's not so much "I want to kill you because you speak a different language and have different cultures" as "Oh crap this guy is going to kill me if I don't shoot first" Hence the all popular saying "kill or be killed".