Cudain: In your otherwise great post, there was one thing I have to comment : as has been said before, there is NOTHING more honorable about killing with a sword than with a gun. Yes, it probably is harder, but in no circumstances is killing another human being anything near honorable. It is only the last option, in a situation where a life is anyway bound to be lost. We tend to romanticize the past, thinking that putting a soldier into an armoury and calling him a knight makes the actual thing, killing, a more noble thing. It doesn't. Dying from a stab of a sword is usually even more blodier, painful and slower. And I don't think that sticking someone with a blade makes you anymore braver, than shooting a person with a gun does.
Phew. Well didn't I sound like a right little activist... [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] And sorry for the repeating, all of this has been said earlier in this post, and more eloquently.
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12-21-2002, 10:47 AM
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