Is that why some members of this group found them humorous, while others refused to take them seriously?
My answer was a yes, because I believe they should at least be respected as enemies - those you will have to stop by any means necessary. Reconsideration of what and who they are is required for that.
What you have said, and thinking twice about simply insulting them...is different. The threats they represented were no joke, and there were reasons behind them that we knew or did not fully comprehend. Yet, there were those from this group who treated it as such.
We did try to stop by any means necessary. I think that's a better sign of taking people seriously other than reconsidering their point of view.
I guess joking is a way for human to cope against the absurdity of life. In one way or another everything in life is absurd, but trying to drop a colony on earth is even more so I guess.
You can't blame people to try to chip off the edge of the cliff of absurdity of having to fight their friend-turned-crazy by trying to snark about it. Human will turn insane if they face everything with full-blown-tension. Joking in the face of death is a wholesome tradition of soldiers since time imemorial.
As a professional soldier, once you raise your arms, you lost the right to complain when you get shot. That's part of the social-contract of being a soldier, and that's what differentiate between DC soldiers and Federation soldiers, and ragtag militias who try to defend their home.
Same with trying to conquer the world.
Once your end goal is complete subjugation of humanity by force, you lost your right to have your ideals peer-reviewed. People are just going to stop you, no should just stop you without thinking about it.
And...
A soldier shouldn't care if people doesn't take their ideals seriously. Because that's what wars are. A clash of ideals. Ideally, both sides should understand that the other side think that their ideals are in the right.
But as I said, once your end goal is destruction of earth, you lost your right to have your ideal discussed civilly. By then having people discuss your idea seriously is a privilege, not a right.
Same with being a soldier. Once you raise your arms as soldier, you lost your right to complain when you get shot at war.
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My answer was a yes, because I believe they should at least be respected as enemies - those you will have to stop by any means necessary. Reconsideration of what and who they are is required for that.
What you have said, and thinking twice about simply insulting them...is different. The threats they represented were no joke, and there were reasons behind them that we knew or did not fully comprehend. Yet, there were those from this group who treated it as such.
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I guess joking is a way for human to cope against the absurdity of life. In one way or another everything in life is absurd, but trying to drop a colony on earth is even more so I guess.
You can't blame people to try to chip off the edge of the cliff of absurdity of having to fight their friend-turned-crazy by trying to snark about it. Human will turn insane if they face everything with full-blown-tension. Joking in the face of death is a wholesome tradition of soldiers since time imemorial.
But here's what's my opinion on it:
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As a professional soldier, once you raise your arms, you lost the right to complain when you get shot. That's part of the social-contract of being a soldier, and that's what differentiate between DC soldiers and Federation soldiers, and ragtag militias who try to defend their home.
Same with trying to conquer the world.
Once your end goal is complete subjugation of humanity by force, you lost your right to have your ideals peer-reviewed. People are just going to stop you, no should just stop you without thinking about it.
And...
A soldier shouldn't care if people doesn't take their ideals seriously. Because that's what wars are. A clash of ideals. Ideally, both sides should understand that the other side think that their ideals are in the right.
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You do not believe that any of it was... excessive?
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But as I said, once your end goal is destruction of earth, you lost your right to have your ideal discussed civilly. By then having people discuss your idea seriously is a privilege, not a right.
Same with being a soldier. Once you raise your arms as soldier, you lost your right to complain when you get shot at war.
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However, she does give an understanding nod before she walks away.]