Violent video games and poor people make good solders?!

[ZERO]

I think we often forget that the civil war actually had spectators. People got pickneck blankets and watched many of the battles. That war was one of the most gory in history as a result of the high caliber rounds and the fact that they bounced around in you body. People say the results of the war with there own eyes not though a camera. If anything our current culture is more sheltered than those of the past the clostest thing we have goten to somehtign like that was 911. We do not have wars on our streats but we and other socities (some still do) did in the past. So when we witness these things in clearly drmamatized forums I think it is our version that is actually better... just think of when we hung and decapated people in the public square and set them on fire

[deprodigy]

yep and that type of violence is still happening in the 3rd world's, s. africa is a perfect example. the people with that type of view just don't understand true violence... I can't even say I do cause I haven't seen it firsthand. I got sick to my stomach watching them decapitate pearl. I like to think many of our soldiers join to learn discipline (its a good way to start a real life for the troubled teens) and many do it just for a job. my friends in many different branches had no complaints when they finished their tours, and no they weren't poor & played games like madden for the most part.

[Steamer]

Survival of the fittest. Nature has always and forever will play a predator/prey game on everything. I guess for humans the biggest excalation of this is war (not that it doesn't happen with other animals, ect... on a smaller scale). What doesn't make us extinct just makes us stronger. =)

I myself get really tired of theese "one" sided doucmenatarys. I guess the only way to trust any of it is to see it with your own eyes.

[ZERO]

discipline-> check out lords of disciplin.

Speaking of seeing it with your own eyes, that is one of the biggest problems that I have with obama other than the fact that he is way to far left. He is only now actually going to see things he has opinions on, but makes his opinion known before he even goes. I have traveled a lot and you can only understand so much from others and the media. Besides nothing is less bias than you seeing something in real life. Take the description of a building for example: one person may describe it's architecture another it's great painting lastly an image shows how it is big and strong. All of these are descriptions of the building and all of them may be right and some of them may be wrong. But the only way to know for your self is to go there and be there. When you yourself see the building you then see it for what it is. Not what others have told you but what you have observed. Humans can feel things that can not be expressed with images and are barly convayed by our greatest writers. The idea of a room where you can feel it's weight, the atmosphere of the people. The sents and smells and the long forgotten past, these thigs the human mind can pick up on when it is presnet. Our minds are a powerful thing and we should be sending them to understand things not those of others. I know what the ajenda of my mind is but even God can not controll the free will of another.

[Steamer]

I watched on the dicovery channel that the human brain has more power than the worlds fastest supercomputer. We just cant use our brain to its full potention yet anyhow..... I think it said most humans only use 2-10% of their brain power at any given time. I could be mistaken.

[G4ce]

it told me video no longer available...