Teens Now Look Favorably On Torture Because Media Teaches Its Morally Acceptable

[Slargos]

I rest my case. 

[Razgovory]

They were contraband by union admission. Contraband, once seized, can be put to whatever use is deemed expedient. They were traitors who drew their hands against their communities and country, and property to boot.

Had it coming.

It's fortunate that the Federal government didn't see things the same way, otherwise the road from Atlanta to Savannah would be lined with graves.

[grumbler]

  I'm not the one with the motorcycle, meat bag.  When you become someone's hood ornament, think of me when you're driving your wheelchair with a straw and your colostomy bag backs up. 

This.  Thread.  Delivers.

[Martinus]

  I'm not the one with the motorcycle, meat bag.  When you become someone's hood ornament, think of me when you're driving your wheelchair with a straw and your colostomy bag backs up. 

This.  Thread.  Delivers.

It gets better

[dps]

When you die, surrounded by dusty wargame boxes, your cats will feast on your flesh and I will laugh. Oh how I will laugh.

Then I will toss them in a bag and into the river they go.

I hope you mean the cats, not the wargames.   

It's fortunate that the Federal government didn't see things the same way, otherwise the road from Atlanta to Savannah would be lined with graves.

Don't you mean unfortunate?

[Slargos]

When you die, surrounded by dusty wargame boxes, your cats will feast on your flesh and I will laugh. Oh how I will laugh.

Then I will toss them in a bag and into the river they go.

I hope you mean the cats, not the wargames.   

Of course. The cats, having feasted on such dessicated and putrid flesh (nevermind after it's started decaying), are beyond salvation and must be destroyed.

However, since the majority the games will still be in their wrapping it means they've been sheltered from the rot and are probably in pristine condition.

[merithyn]

Having teenage children IS torture.

This. OhmyfuckingGodyes THIS!

[DGuller]

Hey, some of those Germans came back from the Soviet Union.  A handful, in the 1950's.

Given the choice, I'd much prefer to be a German POW in a Soviet camp than a Soviet POW in a German camp.  My odds of surviving would be many times higher.

[Slargos]

Hey, some of those Germans came back from the Soviet Union.  A handful, in the 1950's.

Given the choice, I'd much prefer to be a German POW in a Soviet camp than a Soviet POW in a German camp.  My odds of surviving would be many times higher.

Nevermind that in the latter scenario you would be Russian.

Who wants to live with that?

[Razgovory]

Well, the German POWs that did get back weren't put in camps in Germany when they got home, so you may have something there.  Though many of them had to live in East Germany.

[Razgovory]

Hey, some of those Germans came back from the Soviet Union.  A handful, in the 1950's.

Given the choice, I'd much prefer to be a German POW in a Soviet camp than a Soviet POW in a German camp.  My odds of surviving would be many times higher.

Nevermind that in the latter scenario you would be Russian.

Who wants to live with that?

Well, the Russians did win the war.

[Eddie Teach]

Given the choice, I'd much prefer to be a German POW in a Soviet camp than a Soviet POW in a German camp.  My odds of surviving would be many times higher.

I think I'd have deserted before facing this choice. So probably end up dead anyway, but eh...

[Lettow77]

It's fortunate that the Federal government didn't see things the same way, otherwise the road from Atlanta to Savannah would be lined with graves.

I might actually prefer this. Reconciliation would never have occurred in this scenario- the South would cease to exist or become an independent nation in the long run.

[Razgovory]

It's fortunate that the Federal government didn't see things the same way, otherwise the road from Atlanta to Savannah would be lined with graves.

I might actually prefer this. Reconciliation would never have occurred in this scenario- the South would cease to exist or become an independent nation in the long run.

Probably not, it honestly wouldn't have made much of a difference, except to those who were killed.  Most Southerners came to believe that something like this actually occurred, had it actually occurred it's not likely they would have been able to get any more upset about it.

[Lettow77]

 We disagree on this. The soft terms of 1865 and the efforts of the Confederate generals toward reconciliation were crucial to the South's laying down arms and accepting the military realities. It could have become an unhappy, generational conflict, with ethnic violence and periodic general uprisings.

As it is, violence probably would have sparked again eventually, except the Southern elites got back into power as the north tired of reconstruction. This would not occur in a world where those associated with the rebellion were shown no quarter.