The ethical considerations of playing COH2

Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2019, 13:32 PMVipper

I personally find wrong to play as USF that is the only nation that has dropped not 1 but 2 Atomic on civilian targets.

Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2019, 13:24 PMSHALLAHJUSTICE

Do you think it is wrong that you can play as Nazis?

Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2019, 13:32 PMVipper

I personally find wrong to play as USF that is the only nation that has dropped not 1 but 2 Atomic on civilian targets.

Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2019, 13:39 PMaerafield

Lmao it's not like you can play the SS in this game and slaughter some civilians. And I think you watched too many american WW2 movies if you think that Wehrmacht soldiers were nazis (or most of them), it's just retarded af

Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2019, 13:41 PMSander93

People play this game because they want to have fun. There are no underlying motives or ethics.
Go somewhere else with your SJW bullshit please.

Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2019, 13:32 PMVipper

I personally find wrong to play as USF that is the only nation that has dropped not 1 but 2 Atomic on civilian targets.

Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2019, 13:39 PMBananenheld

i cant play UKF for that reason. So many have suffered or died under the british empire.

Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2019, 13:51 PMSHALLAHJUSTICE

That is true. All sides were guilty of some kind of war crime.

Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2019, 13:46 PMSupremeStefan

This explains everything

Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2019, 13:47 PMSHALLAHJUSTICE

Of course they were all national socialists, they were passionate about Hitler and the expansion of the fatherland, it's what drove their great military successes and legendary resolve and morale.

The Wehrmacht although not as bad as the SS weren't innocent, they were brutal to Russian civilians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_of_the_Wehrmacht

Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2019, 13:58 PMVipper

Actually I was being sarcastic and for you information I currently play mostly USF.

Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2019, 14:01 PMaerafield

American Soldiers also commited a lot war crimes during the Vietnam War, does that mean the whole U. S. Army was a bunch of murderers and hated Vietnamese people?

Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2019, 13:57 PMBananenheld

just shows you that every nation does not act morally.

i mean the fact alone you decided to mention nazis and not soviets (so many more died due communism).

if we go for your high morally standards you cant play any history game at all(well you can play, but you are not allowed to have fun :^))

Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2019, 14:01 PMSupremeStefan

Killing German units is satisfying espiecialy when u know what they done to your country for me its dishonorable to play axis but its just me. There is a dispute in my home about that because my father http://www.companyofheroes.com/leaderboards#profile/steam/76561198150228534/standings
play only axis and i only alies. Anyway its really funny to see 55 years old man playing video games.

Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2019, 14:01 PMaerafield

American Soldiers also commited a lot war crimes during the Vietnam War, does that mean the whole U. S. Army was a bunch of murderers and hated Vietnamese people?

Jump back to quoted post13 Mar 2019, 14:06 PMSHALLAHJUSTICE

Well obviously i mentioned Nazi's first because of the holocaust. Having said that the soviet union was bad to Jews as well, Stalin had Trotsky assassinated because he was of Jewish decent and a lot of minorities were tortured at the Gulags and many uprisings brutally put down over the years.

I tend to forget about British imperialist policies too, which at some time or another has persecuted many minorities. The atomic bomb was horrific and unnecessary as-well. The whole war was so surreal, full of depravity and barbarism. Hence the thread.

I guess all countries are scum. The best thing you can do is cultivate some sort of development individually and personally. Nationalism always ends in tears.