Five worst tragedies in history?

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Ax3l Cummin Soon

Apartheid.

Sorry, I'm just trying to be different.

Captain REX Networking

I believe 9/11 shows up more often than it normally would just due to how recent it was compared to say, the Holocaust.

As for sudden events... hmm. Most of the terrible things I can think of were not that sudden.

Rogue Jedi Restricted

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri

Read the thread.

He said it's based on single events that happened quickly.

-AC

No, I said the events I listed were like that. The Holocaust, slavery, stuff like that is fine.

Ax3l Cummin Soon

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
The Holocaust, slavery, stuff like that is fine.
Yeah, that stuff was swell.

Rogue Jedi Restricted

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The Grey Fox Restricted

Originally posted by leonheartmm
disease
{these are hard to place}
death
carnivorism
despair/self loathing/bitterness
These things are all natural life processes. In whatever you believe, these things were put here for a reason. They're natural and the world could not do without them.

Quincy Debaser

Canceling Arrested Development 😐

Rogue Jedi Restricted

Originally posted by The Grey Fox
These things are all natural life processes. In whatever you believe, these things were put here for a reason. They're natural and the world could not do without them.
Agreed.

This is a bad one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monongah_Mining_disaster

Röland Masked Vigilante

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
I didnt forget that one, trust me. The Holocaust took place over years, I am talking about shit that happened like BAM, out of the blue, no warnings.

The Holocaust kind of did happen out of the blue, most of the world just ignored it for a while though.

Rogue Jedi Restricted

Originally posted by Strangelove
some would argue that the axis was ready to surrender before Truman dropped the bomb
The Japanese drew first blood with an unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor. They ****ed with the bull and got the horns.

But then one might argue that Japan was attempting to cripple the U.S. fleet as the Japanese conquered Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.

Strangelove Misunderstood Genius

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
The Japanese drew first blood with an unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor. They ****ed with the bull and got the horns.

But then one might argue that Japan was attempting to cripple the U.S. fleet as the Japanese conquered Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.

Pearl Harbor: 2,402 dead (57 civilians)

Hiroshima/Nagasaki: 220,000 dead (estimated, overwhelming majority civilian), + countless live affected by the radiation.

You tell me how that's justified. That's worse than what Al Qaeda did to us on 9/11

omgchos The Man From Ireland

Originally posted by Strangelove
Pearl Harbor: 2,402 dead (57 civilians)

Hiroshima/Nagasaki: 220,000 dead (estimated, overwhelming majority civilian), + countless live affected by the radiation.

You tell me how that's justified. That's worse than what Al Qaeda did to us on 9/11


Well i ask you this.... What would you have done to make the japanese surrender.

Degreeforfish JewFish

aids/your mom jokes/cosmetic surgery/white people/black people from "the hood"

Strangelove Misunderstood Genius

Originally posted by omgchos
Well i ask you this.... What would you have done to make the japanese surrender.
Um, continue to use our superior military to force them to surrender, like we were already doing.

I'm just saying that Pearl Harbor is a shitty excuse for what we did.

The Grey Fox Restricted

Originally posted by Strangelove
Pearl Harbor: 2,402 dead (57 civilians)

Hiroshima/Nagasaki: 220,000 dead (estimated, overwhelming majority civilian), + countless live affected by the radiation.

You tell me how that's justified. That's worse than what Al Qaeda did to us on 9/11

I don't think G.I. Joe here really cares how many 'damn wops' died, they ****ed with America, and he'll be darn-diddly-damned if anyone who ****s with his freedom doesn't die a painful, irradiated death.

Rogue Jedi Restricted

Originally posted by Strangelove
Um, continue to use our superior military to force them to surrender, like we were already doing.

I'm just saying that Pearl Harbor is a shitty excuse for what we did.

And lose thousands more GI's along the way?

Ax3l Cummin Soon

Yeah, mass genocide of civilians is much better

omgchos The Man From Ireland

Originally posted by Strangelove
Um, continue to use our superior military to force them to surrender, like we were already doing.

I'm just saying that Pearl Harbor is a shitty excuse for what we did.


While pearl harbor itself being used as an excuse is, yes shitty. I still think that actually attempting to invade the mainland of japan, would have resulted in far to many casualties on both sides. Most likely more than those lost in the bombings themselves. Not to mention the fact that those "civilians" in japan would have defended their own land to the death. Taking as many allied soldiers with them as they could. It may not have been the perfect solution, but at the time, it was the best way to avoid more of the heavy losses america was taking. They did ask for it, attacking us, but the atom bombs weren't revenge for pearl harbor. The subsequent bombing, featured in the movie of the same name was.

grimify Lord of the Dance

the black death
Spanish flu + WW1, although separate events one enabled the other.
WW2
Hitler and the holocaust
Russia under Stalin
transatlantic slave trade
colonization of the Americas effect on Native Americans
rise of the Qing Dynasty

There's plenty more that are far more tragic than any terrorist attack.

omgchos The Man From Ireland

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