Philosophy, emotional investment and Questions that arise

[Onionfighter]

It's sand castles on the beach dude, you build it to see how nice you can make it look before the tide comes and washes it away. Then you start again another day seeing if you can better your previous efforts.
Are you really after building? Or are you after collection?

There is a difference between having the waves wash away your sand castle (new world), and having some punk kick it over (griefers).

[theTrav]

There is a difference between having the waves wash away your sand castle (new world), and having some punk kick it over (griefers).

As a kid I went down to the beach one day with my brother and my dad for a sand castle competition, we brought shovels and buckets and went nuts, made by far the biggest construction there. I went down the next day and there were kids running up and jumping into it, the delicate bridges and crenelations were destroyed but I'd already had my fun with them, and the kids were having fun with what I'd left.

Sure if the kid kicks it over while you're working on it then that's a dick move of him, but even then, he's probably got a shitty life and problems at home causing him to do such things, so just give him your pity and go play somewhere else, that's generally my philosophy.

[Coldsteel]

I used to bury pointy sticks inside the towers and keeps of my sand castles.

[Peter]

I used to bury pointy sticks inside the towers and keeps of my sand castles.

Bwa ha ha ha ha, that's almost as bad as building roadside snowmen around fire hydrants and boulders. You get whole trucks that way.

[jorb]

hence the reason the USA's atom bombing of Japanese cities being quite so grossly appalling

Because, obviously, invading Japan and fighting street to street, hill to hill and city to city across the country using conventional weapons (as happened in Europe) would have been that much more humane? I for one am glad that America won the war, and that she didn't sacrifice her best and brightest in a pointless and avoidable invasion of mainland Japan.

America -- Fuck Yeah!

[copyannon]

To the guy with the builder rant: Fucking really, guy? It's a computer game. Did you actually just try to equate anything that happens in a mother fucking video game to the atomic bombings of two cities; to two instances of massive death and one of the hardest decisions ever made by any human ever? Seriously?

[theTrav]

To the guy with the builder rant: Fucking really, guy? It's a computer game. Did you actually just try to equate anything that happens in a mother fucking video game to the atomic bombings of two cities; to two instances of massive death and one of the hardest decisions ever made by any human ever? Seriously?

Hey, relax guy, you just need a rest

[kimya]

hence the reason the USA's atom bombing of Japanese cities being quite so grossly appalling

Because, obviously, invading Japan and fighting street to street, hill to hill and city to city across the country using conventional weapons (as happened in Europe) would have been that much more humane? I for one am glad that America won the war, and that she didn't sacrifice her best and brightest in a pointless and avoidable invasion of mainland Japan.

America -- Fuck Yeah!

her best soldiers, her brightest weapons? arguments pro nuclear bomb gives me the creeps.

[Potjeh]

You could've just let the Russkies invade Japan. Though I'm not sure it'd be more humane than A-bombs.

[Rugs]

her best soldiers, her brightest weapons? arguments pro nuclear bomb gives me the creeps.

If you don't see the bombings as justified you are a baby and need a bigger worldview.