Wow this is really the best discussion I have ever read at Benno's Forum.
And yes, all I am writing here is SERIOUS.
NO IRONY AND CYNISM PLEASE
This is all about the core, the basic backbone of what our sick, childish but very interesting hobby or profession is all about.
First of all I have to thank Frankzett for starting this discussion.
I was very surprised to read your words Frankzett. They puzzled me. My first reaction was exactly the same as Skorra's, but my second thought was: Frankzett is just sharing his EMOTIONS with us. Which is a gentle thing to do and I support you in that all the way. You made me very curious because you seem to draw a line for yourself: if I understand you well, mutilation of male humans on the battlefield is very unpleasant but still on the safe side of that line. Depicting Hitlers army in full glory in action at the battlefield is on the safe side too. But non-explicit sexual violence is at the wrong side. We talk about emotions, not about ethics, let that be clear. So I wonder: is that only your personal emotional reaction just like you say? Or are your own wife and kids (if you have any) playing a part in this in your sub-conscious? Would you have felt the same ten or twenty years ago when you were a young (and probably wilder) man with less responsibilities in life?
I am asking myself: what is more terrible: mutilating another man in battle just because you get payed for it as a mercenary, or raping a defenseless woman and knocking her unconscious when her children are watching.
Well, I think the Christian, the Western European and the American 'Hollywood' point of view will all agree: Non-mortal violence against woman and children is more abject as mortal violence is towards other men. Thinking about this dilemma, I have to admit a can not disagree with it.
That must be BECAUSE BEING KILLED OR WOUNDED IN ACTION IS MORE GLORIOUS THAN TO LIVE ON WITH THE HUMILIATION OF BEING SEXUALLY ABUSED. Probably that is what is going on in the heart and head of Frankzett.
Frankzett wrote:I do NOT have to justify myself for any omission
That is right Frankzett.
Skorra, you think exactly like I do but you can not expect somebody to start a consequent witchhunt like this:
SKORRA wrote: I never ever heard you about the others examples. Why not writting a letter to others manufacturers to warn them about that?
J_A_ wrote:technically there not exist politically correct military figures,except the pedestrians for rail dioramas but I have my doubts about if those figures offends someone too,like things are going nowadays everything is possible !!
J_A_ this is great, I had a loud laugh about your words, which is exactly what is happening in the Netherlands too.
mickey mouse wrote:some things are necsesary to remind people that what happend in the pat, must stay in the past.
Well spoken mickey mouse. That is the educational side of it.
mickey mouse wrote:a battlefield in the midst of the heath without wounded and deadth's is nice to see, but very unrealistic
That is right and I was criticised for that myself. With a reason.
I think I am suffering from the same internal struggles as Frankzett does: I am obsessed with historical warfare but I don't like violence. I don't like to be reminded of the true horrific face of war.
This all reminds me of another thread called
The Pendle Witch Child AD1580 posted by kursktiger:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18943&p=204452&hilit=torture#p204452I never forgot k.b.'s reply:
k.b. wrote:Sorry gents! VERY questionable taste is all I have to say about this thread!
Talking about where is the limit, I wonder: were would the webmasters and moderators of Benno's Forum draw the line?
If I would post a sculpture of a little child being beaten to death by a drunk soldier, will it be removed from the forum?
If I show a close up picture in the Gallery of a miniature Wehrmacht soldier raping a skin-over-bone Jewish concentration camp prisoner from behind, would it be removed? Would German and Austrian forum members be offended by such an image? Or the Jewish ones?
Have there been any pictures removed at all for ethical reasons at Benno's in the past?
Remco, Benno, Peter, Paul and Kekso, I would like to hear your honest opinion on this!