fabio wrote:

Mischief Professional wrote:

All that said, I think you're misinterpreting laudable, fabs. I think he finds WWI fascinating like a trainwreck and wishes to understand it in a preventative sense, he's not celebrating it. That, and it gives him a great excuse to take a fun-filled trip to France.

All I wanted was an explanation on how visiting anniversary memorials for battle sites is any different than historical atrocity massacres. At first I got the brush off that how it didn't EVEN need to be explained how large scale wars are historically fascinating while civilian atrocities are bad taste icky, which was the very phenomenon I was curious about. Then I get the "war is an inevitable and sometimes necessary human nature" bit which is cowardly complacent at best and still fails to explain how genocide somehow doesn't fall into the same category (I think we've found the military equivalent to the "murder vs rape" phenomenon from your law classes).