3 most cowardly acts in human history?

IMO

1. Sacrificing of freedom in the name of security.
2. Sending hundreds of thousands of young American men to die in Vietnam due to a “perceived” threat of communism taking over the world is pretty cowardly
3. A toss up between random things Stalin and Hitler did.

I should really change this to 5 things, but lets go with 3 for now. Tis open to all discussion except spamming and childishness please.

None of those would make my list.  I\'ll have to think a bit before posting mine though.

Ethnic cleanout in Bosnia.. UN troops told not to interact.

Japanese "tests" on its on population and the population of China.

Pol Pot.

(not ranked in any particular order.)

1.  Terrorist acts of all kinds, whether it be the 9-11 plane crash, or suicide bombing, all the culprits struck inocents and killed themselves in the process so that they didn\'t have to face retrobution.

2.  Vietnam, \'nuff said

3.  I\'m gonna have to group together all the child molestors, rapers and sexual deviant crimes in this one.  Is there anything more cowardly than attacking a child or woman, I don\'t think so.

It might just be me, but I don\'t think that terrorism is always cowardly.  Not at all.  Afterall, one man\'s terrorist is another man\'s freedom fighter.  If the circumstances were right, I\'m sure there are terrorists we would, and do look at as heros.  Sure, I don\'t agree with their methods, but at least they are doing something for a cause, which no matter what your actions, is less cowardly than believing in a cause and doing nothing.

I rarely think it is cowardly b/c it takes huge balls of steel to know you are going to die and proceed as planned. How many ppl can say that?

Fastson, Pol Pot is probably my number 4

but in their mind it wasn\'t death as we know it.  By killing all those people they would go to heaven and be greated by a shit load of virgins.  How many of you would by weary of doing somthing if you knew that you would be rewarded for it with a gift beyond your wildest dreams.  In addition, by dieing in the act they don\'t have to deal with guilt or retrobution by the victim.  In the mind of the terrorist their was no downside.

1.  Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Rather then lose thousands of American Soldiers to take Japan the U.S. takes the easy way out and kills hundreds of  thousands of Japan\'s civilians.

2.  Stalin - He was so afraid of his own people he killed millions of them.

 
About the perceived threat of Communism taking over the world in the Vietnam war was just war propaganda.  The U.S. promised to help any country who wants Democracy.  So when South Vietnam didn\';t want communism the U.S. helped them.  Just like how U.S. helped Afghanistan fight off Russia.  The U.S. gov made up some big thing about communism taking over just to raise support for the war.  How was this cowardly?

Paedophiles And Rapists
The Holocaust
Pol Pot.

Thats my opinion. I don\'t really know much about what happened in \'nam, was too young and I\'m not a yank.

Originally posted by Clowd


 
About the perceived threat of Communism taking over the world in the Vietnam war was just war propaganda.  The U.S. promised to help any country who wants Democracy.  So when South Vietnam didn\';t want communism the U.S. helped them.  Just like how U.S. helped Afghanistan fight off Russia.  The U.S. gov made up some big thing about communism taking over just to raise support for the war.  How was this cowardly?

Propaganda isnt the definition of cowardly, but it is certainly close. The right words arent comming to me at the moment (kinda preoccupied now) It just seems cowardly to me.

As for the bombs in japan, I dont really look at that as cowardice b/c at times of war, you have to do things to win..period.

1)The holocaust is a big one. Just because people were "different" isnt a good reason to kill them. Individuallity is what makes this world turn.

2)Rapists, molesters, child pornographers. Sick ****s... sick sick ****s

Originally posted by theomen
but in their mind it wasn\'t death as we know it.  By killing all those people they would go to heaven and be greated by a shit load of virgins.  How many of you would by weary of doing somthing if you knew that you would be rewarded for it with a gift beyond your wildest dreams.  In addition, by dieing in the act they don\'t have to deal with guilt or retrobution by the victim.  In the mind of the terrorist their was no downside.

Are you telling me all terrorists have this same belief?  I\'ll guarantee you there are athiest terrorists out there...what about them?  Besides, not all terrorists die during an act of terror, and there is always the risk of getting caught, and going to jail rather than being killed.

I\'ll narrow down my terrorist definition, I\'m refering to the terrorist who strike in the name of Allah and exercise Jihad.  As for the risk of being caught, well when you\'re in control of an airplane 5 miles above earth, or strapped with explosives, the chance of being taken alive is pretty damn low.

Of course the chance of being caught alive once in control of the plane is low, but what about the chance of being caught/stopped before you take control?

And what about people who do such things in the name of another religion?

well the same could be said about Rapest and Child Molestors, the chance of being caught is quite high, but I would not call them brave.

As for people who do things in the name of other religions.  They are just as bad, there\'s no seperating these people.  In my mind the crusades were just as stupid and meaningless as the current situation we are faced with, if not more so.  People doing acts in the name of religion is responsible for all most all the wantonness deaths in mans history.