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| Subject: | Re: Controversy and Subject Matter |  |
| Date: | Aug 1, 2006 |
| From: | Pawel Kowalski | |
Personally,
I dont mind. I dont mind people build miniatures or Hitler, Stalin, or depiction of executions or massacres.
This is what personal fredom means for me, I do not have to like it, but I accept it.
I canot see myself building a WWII german tank, because those tanks tore though my homeland. However, I see nothing wrong with anyone doing just that, even when my fellow contrymen do it. I can still apreciate the beauty of the construction nonetheless.
I feel that anything anyone of us want to depict, we should be allowed to do it.
Not that we should all like it, but we should accept it.
We are building instruments of mayham. I doubt we can claim, that not one of the vehicles we have on our shelf has ever killed a human being, can we ??
The is always the question of what is "fair" in combat, is ok to build a tank that shoots at other tanks; railguns that bombard cities, SS soldaten that enter a eastern european city ? and so on...
Personally I think that it is only our own judgement that we should use. Noone can say what is right and wrong. If there was someone controling the lot of us, we would not see things like Israeli Merkavas and arab T-55s on the same website. And in pretty sure that in Iran, building a Merkava tank would get your head chopped off.
And in the end its "your" name underneath the model, not "mine"
Thats my 2 cents. |
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 | Controversy and Subject Matter - David Manning - Aug 1, 2006 |
| . . . Re: "Outsider" Perceptions of Model Building - Paul A. Owen - Aug 1, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: "Outsider" Perceptions of Model Building - Andrew Herbert - Aug 1, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Controversy and Subject Matter - Michael Dworacek - Aug 1, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: Controversy and Subject Matter - Tim Streeter - Aug 1, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Controversy and Subject Matter - Pawel Kowalski - Aug 1, 2006 |
| . . . It's all about perspective - Michael - Aug 1, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Controversy and Subject Matter - Mike Johnson - Aug 1, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Controversy and Subject Matter - Kevin A. Moore - Aug 1, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Controversy and Subject Matter - Neil Stokes - Aug 2, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Controversy and Subject Matter - Marc - Aug 2, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Controversy and Subject Matter - Ross Hillman - Aug 3, 2006 |
| . . . Re: The next time someone calls you a geek for building models... - Paul A. Owen - Aug 11, 2006 |
| . . . . . . should i be ashamed?...i'm a closet modeler..... - Glenn Bartolotti - Aug 11, 2006 |
| . . . . . . Re: The next time someone calls you a geek for building models... - Damon Agretto - Aug 14, 2006 |
| . . . . . . I'm a Model Geek and proud of it! - James Wechsler - Aug 14, 2006 |
| . . . Re: Controversy and Subject Matter - Patrick Grumbrecht - Aug 14, 2006 |
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