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06-26-2007, 08:30 AM
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Wordsmith
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Originally Posted by Creator
This is for my tale of Alpha Omega, a tale about genetic discrimination.
Basically I am wondering if there is such a thing as farming humans for the millitary? I am not talking about clone armies, that's Star Wars.
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i dont know if anyone said this but the spartans kinda did.
the woman were educated and trained (and held in a higher standing than the rest of the greek world) as they beleived that intelligent and strong women would produce intellegent and strong children.
males were taken away at 7. trained/beaten until 13. then part of the death squad (basically you were thrown out at night and had to survive on a mountain, you had to forrage your own food) then at 23 (i think) you were like a junior soldier then at 30 you were a full one.
and it was a great honour.
many (male) kids were beaten to death. |
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06-27-2007, 03:54 AM
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Ink Slinger
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Breeding battle hobbits is the future of warfare. Sure, you laugh now.
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07-10-2007, 05:54 PM
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Prolific Writer
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Originally Posted by Ilan Bouchard
Military history has proven that only superior strategy trumps superior technology. When two opponents with equal strategy face each other, the one with superior technology always wins.
As Hodge said, machines are already being implemented into warfare to save lives and costs. (The U.S. Army's slogan for a short while was "working every day to unman the front lines," whilst showing off their remote-controlled tanks and planes.)
Instead of breeding these humans to be soldiers, why not breed them to be engineers? An engineer can produce far more destruction than a jarhead.
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This has turned into a debate so id thought I would point out that if we implement machines in the place humans? Will this make lives safer or more endangered. Imagine an army of machines marching into a town programmed to kill anything armoured and equiped like a tank, mindlessly mowing down men,woman and children.
What happens to human compassion. Why would we program a machine to march against other machines on some distant battlefield.... cities would be the targets and civilians paying the piper.
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07-10-2007, 08:19 PM
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Wordsmith
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This is happening as you speak. A film like "Blood Diamonds" shows kids being captured and forced to be an army, but outfits like that also expand by inbreeding, and capturing women. Something like the MS 13 gangs in Central America (and, increasingly, North America) have been carrying on warfare pretty much against all comers for a couple of generations now.
It only takes like 10 years to have a kid ready to kill.
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07-11-2007, 02:54 AM
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Moderator
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Originally Posted by lin
It only takes like 10 years to have a kid ready to kill.
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And far cheaper and easier to replace than a robot. |
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07-11-2007, 08:38 PM
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Wordsmith
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Also more fun to make.
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07-11-2007, 10:58 PM
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Banned
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Did your son come back from Iraq in a body bag?
Last edited by Truth-Teller : 07-11-2007 at 11:08 PM.
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07-11-2007, 11:07 PM
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Banned
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Wait a min, you don't even have a son. You probably divorced your wives seven times, and they ran away with your kid. Tell me, I'm right.
You own children disowned you, because you were cheating behind her back.
God, I should be some kind of a prophet.
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07-12-2007, 12:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Truth-Teller
Did your son come back from Iraq in a body bag?
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That's kind of a good point, although I know you were just trying to be sarcastic.
Over 3,000 american servicemen have. Thousands more suffered debilitating or disabling injuries. Say 6,000 men removed from battle never to return.
A cruise missile costs around $500k. It's a very simple robot; you tell it where to go, it chooses it's route, goes where it's told, explodes. A sophisticated battle robot may cost, say, 5 times that much.
If every casualty cost the US government $2.5m, how long do you think the war would have lasted? The US would have pulled out long ago. Life is cheap. |
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07-12-2007, 01:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Mike C
Life is cheap.
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In monetary terms.
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07-12-2007, 06:37 AM
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Banned
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"Did your son come back from Iraq in a body bag?"
I hope you die, you ignorant piece of shit.
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07-24-2007, 08:00 PM
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OK.... Mods.... This thread has become a flame center! Please post relevant discussions....
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