Why are we so fascinated with things that kill people?

[Dis]

of course I've always loved navy ships. I had models of navy ships my brothers and I put together.



not the one we had before- that google link is dead for me.

[Ecthy]

not the way cool one we had before, but those are great

I like you Diss, you're a bit like me, just older, maybe I'm like you in 10 years

[Ecthy]

yeah, bam bam bam, who knows how many of our unworthy subhuman enemies are biting the dust there

[Saras]

Iowa class broadside. KABOOM!

[Ecthy]

there's video capturing of both Bismarck vs. Hood and the ultimate anti-Bismarck one, what were those names...

Those video recordings however rule. like coloured pics from the front or so. I like those coloured pics from the dodecade, with the banners all in red and not grey, and a Hitler that looks like a real person and not just some dude from history. Makes WWII and all that a lot more real. Also the blitzed cities in colour.

[Ecthy]

that's the one, yee haw!

once had the link to a B-2 stealthyboy with bombing flaps open and loads of stuff coming out of it, down on some area (might have been a fake pic though). also somewhat fascinating: planes from above while bombing, with a burned black area below them. Or the video rec of the Berlin raid, the city looking like combed

[Al B. Sure!]

yeah, bam bam bam, who knows how many of our unworthy subhuman enemies are biting the dust there

was i the only one scared by Ecthelion when he said this... created an image for me of a grown german man with the mind of a little boy going bam bam bam!

[Ecthy]

Albert, please. See the smilies and get the humour.

Not all of us have grown up in a ghetto

[Dis]

It's like when little kids want to play with guns. It's weird that even at such a young age little kids get into that. Like I said above, I believe it has to do with male dominance issues. So the behaviour is not that strange.

[Sikander]

Re: We are we so fascinated with things that kill people?

Dude, I know what you mean! I can't stop staring at my hands! They're still bloody, though I have washed them every hour for years now. Nothing will wash the stain away, nothing! .......



Oh yea, and tanks are cool.

[Ecthy]

why what did you do?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Dissident
It's like when little kids want to play with guns. It's weird that even at such a young age little kids get into that. Like I said above, I believe it has to do with male dominance issues.

It seems that little kids like stuffed animals more. I think this is just a socialisation issue, because aduits give guns to little boys to play.

[Q Classic]

planes are cool.

[Japher]

Movie characters that have facinated me when growing up:

Indian Jones: Kick Nazi A$$ then made out with hot chick

James Bond: Kick everyones A$$ while making out with hot chick (sometimes even scored with the bad chick)

I'm a lover and a fighter

[Pekka]

I don't know why.. I don't know why I'm fascinated by smaller weapons, nasty stuff like plastic mines and bayonettes etc. The whole concept interests me. Not just weapons, especially tactics, propaganda, military history.. just about everything there is to it.
My mom didn't allow me to play war with other kids, well I did play anyway and it only added to the excitment.

About Nazis.. it is true. I think there are not so many people who actually admired their ideology. They had cool uniforms, parades etc. And like Albert Speer pointed out, they were carefully set up to look like that. Professional propaganda. Even to this day I think no one has been even close to their achievements in that field.
Also Nazis are forbidden area. You are told since you were young lad that Nazis are bad and you must hate them. But when you're young, you see them with cooler equipment and then wonder why are they so bad then? You're too young to realize their ideologies and what it really was about, you focus on the cool stuff. And when it is extremely forbidden, it is way more interesting to kids. Like that forbidden apple. It is forbidden in schools and other places to do the Heil Hitler stuff. So what do you think happens when it's the only forbidden thing?

Though I was more interested in ninjas when I was a kid than war. Every independence day you see all these veterans in television who tells stories about wars, and you see they have gotten these big medals that are cool. You see footage where guy jumps from foxhole, runs to closing tank and destroys it. Now how cool is that?!

But sure, I'm fascinated by bigger weapons as well. I rarely think about the dead people it creates, just the other destruction it would create to let's say forrest or buildings. Naive, I know..

edit: If you want to see the gay side to parades and uniforms, check out http://www.atmo.se/?pageID=4&articleID=399
and the Hitler clip. It's hilarious!