RE: What is the single darkest moment in human history?

Seriously guys? wrote:

People are mentioning Hiroshima and Nagasaki but not the attack on Pearl Harbor?

Pearl Harbor, in my opinion, is by far more dark than those two events. A surprise air raid done in the early morning, killing thousands of American soldiers.

Are YOU serious? Pearl Harbor targeted a military base...Soldiers are trained to defend themselves. They have weapons, airplanes, bombs, etc. to defend themselves. Yes it was a surprise attack, but it was soldiers against soldiers. Fair game. The casualties were a tiny fraction of those at Hiroshima/Nagasaki.

The atomic bombs dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a cowardly attack AGAINST AN INNOCENT CIVILIAN POPULATION. That was a massacre specifically targeting men, women, and children. A civilian defenseless population was instantly incinerated. Who does that? This is on the same level as what Hitler did to the Jews. Just because your country did it doesn't mean you can't recognize the atrocity of the event and how messed up it was. One of the darkest moments in humanity.

When Andrew Jackson decided to put into law that all Native Americans that did not move to the reservations were considered criminals, and were dealt with in horrendous ways.

branfo wrote:

Seriously guys? wrote:

People are mentioning Hiroshima and Nagasaki but not the attack on Pearl Harbor?

Pearl Harbor, in my opinion, is by far more dark than those two events. A surprise air raid done in the early morning, killing thousands of American soldiers.

Far more dark? Really? The attack on Pearl Harbor was a military strike, targeting the U.S. naval base and killing thousands. On the other hand, the atomic bombings targeted two of the largest cities of Japan, killing hundreds of thousands. Furthermore, the bombings were at the end of the war when Japan had all but surrendered.

Actually, Japan refused to surrender after the first bomb.

Hats to be axed wrote:

agip wrote:

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simply that many americans thought slavery was an absolute good, not an evil.

A prior poster wrote: "it was irrefutably evil, everyone knew it was evil"

I meant to dispute his statement that everyone knew it was evil.

OK. Got it. That makes sense.

Well if not US slavery, then how about the moment when a depraved and retarded southern half of the nation decided it was worth fighting northerners to the death for several years, in order to retain the right to own slaves?

Hats to be axed wrote:

SkyArt wrote:

Bubonic plague

Spanish flu

And from a Christian perspective:

Fall of man

Death of Jesus

Gonna have to disagree with 'Death of Jesus'. In Christian theology isn't this part of the redemption of mankind and the only way that humankind can ever get back to God's grace? How can this possibly be considered a dark moment?

hmm, should have thought about it that way, I guess just the fall of man then. Was thinking more about the fact that he had to die and the stuff that happened, and less about the significance

The election of Barack Obama.

It was the day God designed man to be tribalistic, because tribalism accounts for all of the atrocities listed thus far, throwing in some psychopathy, narcissism, and obedience to authority a la Milgram. It is amazing what we humans can do when we lack empathy.

Why did He create man to be so? Of course to survive in competitive nature, but why did He have to make nature so damn competitive?

This is so very true & so very sad.

Truly Independent wrote:

The election of Barack Obama.

Ha Ha! Very nice!

Intelligent Designer wrote:

It was the day God designed man to be tribalistic, because tribalism accounts for all of the atrocities listed thus far, throwing in some psychopathy, narcissism, and obedience to authority a la Milgram. It is amazing what we humans can do when we lack empathy.

Why did He create man to be so? Of course to survive in competitive nature, but why did He have to make nature so damn competitive?

I would actually say that the day that man created god to be much darker.

The invention of religion.

Maybe the invention if judaism, which of course spawned christianity and islam.

Those abrahamic religions have done more to hold mankind back than any other force or circumstance in history...and we did it to ourselves.

Hiroshima/Nagasaki were rather literally among the *brightest* events in human history.

competitor group dropping funding for elites.

Galen Rupp not PBing in his last race.

When I had to say goodbye to my friend, E.T.

This:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfr64zoBTAQ

Dennis Reynolds wrote:

Whoever the first person to come to Africa and throw people on boats to be slaves has to rank at the very top. To view your fellow man as inferior enough to believe you have the right to force them to work for no pay and take them from their homes ranks up there as the darkest moment in human history.

force to work for no pay. I'd rather work for no pay than sit around doing a whole lotta nothing. If there was some money to blow, that would be different. I'd be on some island somewhere. I might as well spend this time getting onboarded and developing my strategy, pitch, and research. The faster I do it, the faster I will get sales. NO one is using me. I offered.

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Pearl Harbor was a blip in the history of war. 5k dead and wounded is nothing compared to something like battle of the somme where something like a half million died and another half a million were wounded.Heroshima was also a mere 125k killed. Compare that to the Nanking Massacre with 300k deaths and pretty much every woman raped. Hiroshima was just something new while things like Nanking had been happening for 2000 years.

Seriously guys? wrote:

People are mentioning Hiroshima and Nagasaki but not the attack on Pearl Harbor?

Pearl Harbor, in my opinion, is by far more dark than those two events. A surprise air raid done in the early morning, killing thousands of American soldiers.

asdfaafdafasd wrote:

Pearl Harbor was a blip in the history of war. 5k dead and wounded is nothing compared to something like battle of the somme where something like a half million died and another half a million were wounded.

Heroshima was also a mere 125k killed. Compare that to the Nanking Massacre with 300k deaths and pretty much every woman raped. Hiroshima was just something new while things like Nanking had been happening for 2000 years.

Seriously guys? wrote:

People are mentioning Hiroshima and Nagasaki but not the attack on Pearl Harbor?

Pearl Harbor, in my opinion, is by far more dark than those two events. A surprise air raid done in the early morning, killing thousands of American soldiers.

Japan has done some seriously messed up things. look at Nanking and also Unit 431 that Japan doing during WW2.