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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Titan on August 07, 2003, 05:09:50 PM
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I was reading LIC\'s thread on dieing and it got me thinking. If you were stuck in a war and you were swarmed by enemy soldiersb (lets say 10. doesn\'t matter though, more than 4), what would you do? Would you fight to the death giving the chance you might beat them and run or would you give up and become a POW? Explain your reason. I\'ll give mine after a couple replies.
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Naturally, my instincts would say to fight.
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take as many sun of a bitches as you can..
I don\'t care what so called war rules there are. No POW is treated good.
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If you\'re not prepared to fight to any extent, no matter the odds, then you should not be in a war.
And for that reason I\'d fight. If I died, I died with honor. If I survived, hooray for me.
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Um I would have to say that my manhood would kick in and fight and most likely get me killed, but what better honor to die for your country?
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tortured to/near death OR barage of bullets (at least one would hit me in the head and it would be quick) and take out a couple while im at it. think ill pick the second option
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I\'d say LOOK IT\'S DAVID HASSELHOFF!!!
Then run away as they turn wided-eyed and gasp.
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I wonder how many of you would actually do something like you say, instead of shitting your pants and screaming like a schoolgirl.
LOL @ THX!
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Originally posted by Samwise
I wonder how many of you would actually do something like you say, instead of shitting your pants and screaming like a schoolgirl.
so true.
this is quite a hard question to answer seeing that i have never been in this kinda situation and god forbid that i would ever have to be in one, coz personally i wouldnt know what i would do, i could fight upto my last breath, but its also possible that i might do what sammy said.
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No one here said that they wouldn\'t be scared sammy, but they would rather fight for their life rather than put it into the hands of the enemy. Geneva convention or not, I could be tortured for the length of the war and shot at the end of it and claimed as yet another casualty of the slaughter. I would never even think of taking such a chance and I would rather die knowing that I fought protecting something I believed in -- something that I believed was worth dying for. If I didn\'t believe in that, then I wouldn\'t belong in that war in the first place.
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If you\'re in a war, you\'re going to have been trained to be there (unless I\'m misunderstanding the topic). With that in mind I\'d be sure that many of us would choose to fight.
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yea. in my mind i would be a trained soldier to be in that situation in the first place. if that situation came up now id curl into a ball and hope for the best,lol.
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**** curling into a ball!!
Id fight for my life... if i survive it would be one of those stories that is told for centuries.... if i dont, i dont.
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My instinct is to stay alive, so I would try to do that. Probably by retreating or giving up. To meaningless "die with honor" sounds like some bad movie to me.
Hopefully the enemy treat a fellow human being in a proper way.
But of course, if the enemy is known for torturing and killing prisoners, giving up would be last on my mind.
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Originally posted by Bjorn
My instinct is to stay alive, so I would try to do that. Probably by retreating or giving up. To meaningless "die with honor" sounds like some bad movie to me.
Hopefully the enemy treat a fellow human being in a proper way.
But of course, if the enemy is know for torturing and killing prisoners, giving up would be last on my mind.
Exactly what I thought.
My checklist :D
1. See if there is any chance to escape.
2. How many of them?
3. Are they good or bad?
- Good: Bake a cake with "I surrender" written on it.
- Bad: Bake a cake with a lit dynamite baked into it.
;)
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I\'d fight. Theres still the slim chance you\'d live. I had this debate with a friend of mine. He\'d become a POW. The reason I would fight is that there is a chance to survive and if you die, you died a heros death. If you surrendered and became a POW, you\'d be tortured for information, be underfed, diseased and die. If you do survive, you could be crippled for the rest of your life. If you die in a POW camp, theres no honor in that. No thank you, I\'ll pick up my M-16 and stay and fight to the death.
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I would like to say that I would fight to the end, but until you are actually faced with such a situation you nver know just how you will react.
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I would like to say that I would fight to the end, but until you are actually faced with such a situation you never know just how you will react.
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Titan:
I\'d fight. Theres still the slim chance you\'d live. I had this debate with a friend of mine. He\'d become a POW. The reason I would fight is that there is a chance to survive and if you die, you died a heros death. If you surrendered and became a POW, you\'d be tortured for information, be underfed, diseased and die. If you do survive, you could be crippled for the rest of your life. If you die in a POW camp, theres no honor in that. No thank you, I\'ll pick up my M-16 and stay and fight to the death.
How much is a "heroes death" worth to your family, gf, kids etc? Is it worth anything to you? No, becuase you\'re dead.
To try to kill 10 people swarming you most certanly would mean death.
To me suicide is stupid (well, if you want to live that is ;) ).
Have you shot an M16? Those clips run out quickly as hell and moving target are hard as shit to hit.
Why is POW=death? Do americans kill their POWs?
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Originally posted by Bjorn
Titan:
To try to kill 10 people swarming you most certanly would mean death.
To me suicide is stupid (well, if you want to live that is ;) ).
Have you shot an M16? Those clips run out quickly as hell and moving target are hard as shit to hit.
It worked for Arnold Swartzenegger in Commando though, he must have killed around 200 soliders. ;)
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Originally posted by Titan
I was reading LIC\'s thread on dieing and it got me thinking. If you were stuck in a war and you were swarmed by enemy soldiersb (lets say 10. doesn\'t matter though, more than 4), what would you do? Would you fight to the death giving the chance you might beat them and run or would you give up and become a POW? Explain your reason. I\'ll give mine after a couple replies.
Kill every last motherlover that I could before dying. Who knows, you might get em all and still live vs being a POW and not knowing what will happen to you.
Do or die baby.
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Originally posted by Bjorn
Titan:
How much is a "heroes death" worth to your family, gf, kids etc? Is it worth anything to you? No, becuase you\'re dead.
To try to kill 10 people swarming you most certanly would mean death.
To me suicide is stupid (well, if you want to live that is ;) ).
Have you shot an M16? Those clips run out quickly as hell and moving target are hard as shit to hit.
Why is POW=death? Do americans kill their POWs?
POW=death because Americans don\'t kill their POWs but the enemies of the US (like Iraq, Japan, Germany, Al-Quada) torture them and chances are you\'d die or become crippled. I\'m just saying if I\'m caught in the situation, I\'d rather die than suffer in a POW camp. And modern M-16s from what I hear don\'t have full automatic capabilities. Only semi and 3 round bursts. And it also depends on the clip size. Usually, there are standard clips of 30. But it is possible to use 40 or even a drum with 75+ rounds. AK47s can use drums of 75 or even clips of 5. But they tend to jam so I wouldn\'t use an AK47.
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I\'ll be :ghey: and become a POW and stay alive. That way I don\'t die and when and if I get back, I\'ll be a hero and have the military supporting me for the rest of my life. :)
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How much is a "heroes death" worth to your family, gf, kids etc?
Most people would consider that to worth a lot... Wouldn\'t you feel the upmost degree of pride if your father or someone close to you did everything he could to stop the enemy?
I just don\'t understand how any human being could train as a soldier and then go into a war with any sort of selfish, individualistic attitude and bring himself to "give up." As I stated earlier, if one\'s not willing to give his life in the name of his country in order to protect his rights and freedoms, then he\'s a waste of space on the battlefield. That\'s my opinion, anyway.
And SER, unless you achieved some sort of outstanding success on the battlefield before being captured, the government would hardly consider you a "hero" behind the eye of the media. Maybe if you escaped as a POW... but otherwise the military would need to risk and sacrifice their own men and resources to rescue you. I wouldn\'t expect them to support you for the rest of your life unless you plan to serve them for just as long.
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Originally posted by Titan
POW=death because Americans don\'t kill their POWs but the enemies of the US (like Iraq, Japan, Germany, Al-Quada)
Hehe yeah, German people are hardcore man, they don\'t care about being part of NATO and the UN, they just kill those damn Americans. :p