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Originally Posted by roachboy
in this context, the civil war is a nonsequitor.
if the question was: which was more violent chicago 68 or the battle of gettysburg? then the answer would be germaine--but the question would be so idiotic that the thread would be floating downward in whatever forum it was in.
the only reason ustwo introduced the civil war so far as i can tell was to trivialize the op.
just look at what followed.
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Melodrama.
The OP dismissed the Civil war as a 'sort a' and I can't think of any time in our history that was even close to that in terms of violence, death, use of government troops against civilians, and destruction to private property.