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>Is it for this then that Heracles'children should be spared? a man who has won a reputation for valour inhis contests with beasts, in all else a weakling; who ne'er buckled shield to arm nor faced the spear, but with a bow, that coward's weapon, was everready to run away. Archery is no test of manly bravery; no! he is a manwho keeps his post in the ranks and steadily faces the swift wound thespear may plough.
>Next thou dost disparage that clever invention, an archer's weapon;come, listen to me and learn wisdom. A man who fights in line is a slaveto his weapons, and if his fellow-comrades want for courage he is slainhimself through the cowardice of his neighbours, or, if he break his spear,he has not wherewithal to defend his body from death, having only one means of defence; whereas all who are armed with the trusty bow, though theyhave but one weapon, yet is it the best; for a man, after discharging countlessarrows, still has others wherewith to defend himself from death, and standingat a distance keeps off the enemy, wounding them for all their watchfulnesswith shafts invisible, and never exposing himself to the foe, but keepingunder cover; and this is far the wisest course in battle, to harm the enemy,if they are not stationed out of shot, and keep safe oneself.
Who was in the wrong here?
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>brainlets still think there is something like wrong and right
"stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters".
Here, have something from a video game.
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>>3320136
It matters to the gods who decide if you get access to the warriors' afterlife, you barbarian coward
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>>3320136
>Here, have something from a video game.
You have to go back
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>>3320136
Wow there is no right or wrong?
Truly revolutionary.
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>>3320136
damn...
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>>3322006
while we're on the subject, why did people decide that "right" should mean two different things? Is it right-handed bias? These are the real questions we should be asking, those damn righties have been keeping us lefties down for centuries and Ive had enough!
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>>3322983
:-DD
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>>3320098
>The Athenian mocked the prisoners by saying that the “real Spartans” were the dead. The Spartan answered: “spindles (by which he meant arrows) would be worth a great deal, if they distinguish brave men from cowards.”
Bows are for shitters.
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