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[Thorgalaeg]

Yep, something like that. The ranking from more furious to less furious would be (for me at least):

-bomb in europe or any western country.
-beheadings
-historical monument destroyed.
-bomb in not western country.

So i think anoher reason is we are used to see wars and bombs every day in far away countries blowing up faceless people we are not related to. Beheadings otoh is something gruesome and more personal, we can even see the face of the victim in tv moments before the execution and that is unbareable. About monuments we feel they are irreplaceable and have read about ancient civs that built them so we are somewhat attached to them, and finally a bomb in a western country is something extraordinary and touch us much closer, so we take it like a personal attack plus muuuch more media coverage.

 

[Borachio]

wow, i get more furious when IS blows up historical monuments than when it blows up people. it is a bit worrysome.

Oh?

The blowing up of historical monuments is designed to make you furious, though, isn't it?

I fight back (or so I fondly imagine) by telling everyone I meet who expresses an interest that destroying a building is much much less significant than destroying a human being. Buildings can always be rebuilt.

 

[Commodore]

Buildings can always be rebuilt.

That's not true at all though when it comes to historical monuments. Sure we might be able to build a replica in the place of the original monument, but it won't be as significant because it's not the real monument.

Also, I realize this is going to sound cold and callous, but the loss of historical monuments is more important than the deaths of random people. Historical monuments tell the story of who we are as a species and remind us of where we came from. Random people simply don't have that level of significance to humanity as a whole. And while the specific people that get killed will never exist again, whatever their role was in their society can certainly be filled by another human and are, in that sense, entirely replaceable. Historical monuments, on the other hand, are truly irreplaceable.

 

[NovaKart]

That's true but I think in some cases the historic monuments had been rebuilt from ruins lying in the desert in the first place. Like maybe the arch hasn't been sitting there untouched for thousands of years but had been lying in pieces when it was put back together. Actually I don't know if that's what happened with palmyra but I think in some cases that's what happened.

 

[red_elk]

Oh?

The blowing up of historical monuments is designed to make you furious, though, isn't it?

I fight back (or so I fondly imagine) by telling everyone I meet who expresses an interest that destroying a building is much much less significant than destroying a human being. Buildings can always be rebuilt.

Why, we can make new humans too.

 

[Borachio]

Weeeeell.

I suppose technically that's true. But they're not quite the same human beings as the ones who have been lost.

I suppose a rebuilt building isn't quite the same either. But I doubt the building itself could either know or care.

 

[Commodore]

Weeeeell.

I suppose technically that's true. But they're not quite the same human beings as the ones who have been lost.

I suppose a rebuilt building isn't quite the same either. But I doubt the building itself could either know or care.

It costs more resources and manpower to rebuild a building though than it does to make more humans. All it takes to make more humans is for a male and female to connect their genitals and a nine to ten month incubation period and boom! New human. To build a building you have to get the manpower, money and raw materials to create the building materials and assemble those materials in a structurally sound manner to create a building. Depending on the building, it could take anywhere from 10 to over 1,000 people to build. Much more than the two required to make a new human.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

What about the medic, the nurses... and nine months is a lot of time. More than to create most buildings. And time is money!

 

[Commodore]

What about the medic, the nurses... and nine months is a lot of time. More than to create most buildings. And time is money!

Doctors and nurses are not necessary for childbirth. And while nine months may be a long time, we can still produce a lot more humans in any given nine month period than we can build buildings. And for a much lower cost as well.

Plus, the buildings we are talking about are historical monuments. The cost of piecing them back together will be much, much higher than the cost of building the "average" building.

 

[red_elk]

Personally, I liked the process of making new humans more, than making new houses.

 

[red_elk]

Media revealed the identity of a Spetsnaz officer who was killed near Palmyra earlier this month.

Alexander Prokhorenko, 25, was awarded with the Hero of the Russian Federation title posthumously.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n-Rambo-wiped-calling-airstrikes-HIMSELF.html

Video from his wedding ceremony:

Link to video.

His wife is expecting child.

 

[Borachio]

Good grief.

I'm sorry she's a widow now. And I'm sure she's probably a very nice person (which is all that counts).

Spoiler :

But that is one seriously undershot jaw.

 

[NovaKart]

You just had to say something.

 

[red_elk]

Palmyra, mine cleaning


Link to video.

0:10 - Typical Russian "Hi, nice to see you!" facial expression.