Top Ten Outrages of the Past Half Millenium

[Kuciwalker]

I didn't say it was EXACTLY the same.

However, in an ecological catastrophy, it would be the non-prokaryotes that died out quickly, not the bacteria.

[LordVipper]

Sikander thank you for once again reminding me why i am so happy being in europe.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by skywalker
I didn't say it was EXACTLY the same.


However, in an ecological catastrophy, it would be the non-prokaryotes that died out quickly, not the bacteria.

You seem to be consdiering this some sort of speciest argument. I wasn't claiming mammals to be more diverse then bacteria, or anything like that. I was saying life, as a whole, is now more diverse and much more sturdy.

[Drake Tungsten]

The French revolution is not an outrage in any way, and honestly I don;t buy the mindset that maes it an outrage- if it is, then the American revolution must get large blame , as the ideas that lead to it and its success was an important factor for the French revolution (I never knew Drake was part of the "blame America" crowd).

The French Revolution, while inspired by the American Revolution, was extremely different in the ideals that it's leaders fought for. The French corrupted the ideals of the American Revolution to the point where blaming America for what was unleashed would be ridiculous.

[Saint Marcus]

The French corrupted the ideals of the American Revolution

[Ned]

1. New Coke
2. Communism (in particular the outrages committed by Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Castro)
3. Holocaust
4. Slavery
5. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
6. Irish potato famine
7. The Armenian genocide
8. The rape of Nanking
9. Saddam Hussein
10. Slobodan Milosevic
11. The French reign of terror


I tend to omit wars where there was savagery on both sides unless there was something very unusual about the killings, such as we saw with the Holocaust.

[devilmunchkin]

you missed my birth..
and if you don't think that's an outrage, i'm sure my parents will be glad to disagree with you

[Imran Siddiqui]

9. Saddam Hussein
10. Slobodan Milosevic

How did 2 tin-pot dicators make the list over religious massacres in the 1600s or pogroms against the Jews in the 1600-1700s in Eastern Europe? Hell, Pinochet was worse.

[Drake Tungsten]

Hell, Pinochet was worse.

Worse than Hussein and Milosevic? You're out of your mind...

[Sava]

10. Slobodan Milosevic

you should replace this with "ignorant dopes who don't know **** about the Balkans"

[Imran Siddiqui]

Worse than Hussein and Milosevic?

Pinochet is responsible for just as many missing/deaths. They only know 70 political prisioners (for whom he's being prosecuting for), but there are thousands of communist/socialist/leftists that have probably been massacred.

[Sava]

sigh... hey milosevic bashing idiots:

The Hague is still waiting for a shred of physical evidence...

I don't really like the guy, as he is a right-wing nationalist, but if you're going to bash him, do it for REAL REASONS...

[Drake Tungsten]

Pinochet is responsible for just as many missing/deaths.

I'm gonna have to call shenanigans on this one; break out the links, baby, cause I don't believe this for a second. Hussein probably killed more in a year than Pinochet killed in his whole career.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I don't really like the guy, as he is a right-wing nationalist, but if you're going to bash him, do it for REAL REASONS...

I think his ethnic cleansing is a real reason. And don't give me the bull**** that he didn't do anything. What, so he had no idea his subordinantes were doing it the whole time (plenty of Serb generals have been convicted of genocide). Yeah... right.

[Odin]

Sava, how could a reasonable person like you stand up for Slaughtering Psyco Slobodan?

BTW Ned, THATS STALINISM, NOT COMMUNISM YOU NUMB-NUTS!!!