C1504 Ripping of nameplates? (1/2)
Out of all the living beings in the world, only humans had the ability to think about death. Only humans knew that every living being was bound to die, and death was inevitable.
Animals don't think this way, they don't have the consciousness of death, they don't think about how their companion disappeared while they are still alive, do they not think that one day I will fall down and never get up again?
Humans have thought, but thinking cannot solve the terrible problem of death. As a result, mysticism came into being. The mysticism of human society was actually a by-product of people's thinking about life and death.
In the end, when humans realized that no matter how you thought about it, death was inevitable, so they could only choose the way they died. The funeral ceremony appeared in human society.
In the ancient times, all races had their own myths, so there were different burial ceremonies. Burial, cremation, mummies, and even burial ceremonies for shamans that had been used to feed wild beasts …
To fill death with a sense of ritual, to allow the soul to transcend became a kind of spiritual pursuit unique to humans.
For thousands of years, religious beliefs have changed, cultural heritage has fused, and funerals have changed but never disappeared.
Under the influence of this culture, humans all believed that humiliating corpses was a great sin!
Using different methods to kill the other party, in exchange for a completely different result, was completely different. Captured General, you gave him enough courtesy, let him choose his own way of dying, gave him a pre-death ceremony, and even after death, you buried him properly and erected a monument.
This was a way to kill the enemy.
There was also another method, which was to stab one to death with a random knife, then strip naked and humiliate the corpses. Then chop off one's head to show off, and even use one's skull as a toilet.
This was another way to kill the enemy.
Were there any differences between these two methods of killing? To the dead man, death was death, and the result was exactly the same. Hanging, drowning, chopping, burning, shooting … In the end, only one would die.
However, the different ways of dying could bring a completely different feeling to the living. The first way of dying, although the failed races were unwilling, but seeing their commanders die with dignity, and even making the enemies feel incomparable respect for them, the hatred, and even the sense of resistance in their hearts, would be greatly reduced.
Try the second method! A nation that has been insulted will burn with righteous indignation, the hatred of the entire nation will never be quenched, and from then on you will have endless reprisals.
Animals do not understand such thoughts. Could it be that in the eyes of tigers, lions, and elephants, death is death? Was the form of death really that important? What a strange human.
However, humans were just that strange. In order to pursue a dignified method of death, they could do many things that were difficult to understand.
For example, the current Haishenwai, the foolish samurai had used a brainless method to humiliate corpses and ignited the hatred of tens of thousands of Russian soldier s. The anger in their hearts was like a volcano, and even if you poured all of the sea water over Japan, it would not be extinguished.
Where did this sudden burst of combat strength come from? And that's where they came from...
”Damn idiot!” ”Baja! Dragon Lord was so angry that he started cursing in Japanese.
”Pass down my orders. From now on, anyone who uses human heads to calculate the merits will have their achievements completely wasted …” Whoever cuts their head off again will not only fail to achieve military merits, but will also become guilty! ”