Questions and Answers on Taking Captives and Slaves

[The Comrade]

the thing i'm worried about most is the overt support turkey is giving ISIS. it suggests such a radical shift in their ideology.

[eynon81]

[The Comrade]

i'm hoping we avoid the "one third of germany dies" scenario in the middle east though.

[eynon81]

[The Comrade]

[exploited]

Ethical human progress is a myth.

Take medicine. Do you know how many years we did unethical medical experimentation? The regular human rights abuses that fed scientific progress?

The whole history of modern politics (say 1600 onwards) is one of territorial conquest, exploitation of resources, abuse of indigenous or poor people, etc.

Capitalism has done truly great things, but it has never been especially ethical. It is, after all, based on the idea that people do not have equal right to resources.

And keep in mind this is an improvement over the more distant past.

As this applies to ISIS, my point is that these sort of atrocities are relative. I mean how many people have we killed? I admit that it doesn't usually involve stoning them, but that is really an aesthetic thing. I guess a guy bleeding to death with his legs blown off is nicer or something?

[eynon81]

[eynon81]

[Professor]

Seems to me, based on Rule 5, that the best way for us Westerners to help the women of the world is to have as much sex with them as possible. In this way, if they are taken as slaves, we may buy them at least a little bit of time from being assaulted by these slavers.

(sarcasm, obviously)

[eynon81]

I remember, back during the Iraq war, saying we needed to help many of these religious minorities leave Iraq because the nation we were creating was hostile to them...I hate being right.