Why do people who are threatening to commit a violent act talk about "Getting Medieval"?

Question

Given the relative levels of violence, wouldn't "Getting Biblical" be more appropriate?

I get it BB. Whereas getting Biblical means a lot of collateral damage.

good to see you back baroness.

Let me reiterate, the question is about whether getting biblical is more appropriate. I already knew that the term was first popularized in "Pulp Fiction."

Computer hard. There aren't a lot of things I report. But spamming my questions with commercial ads will always get flagged.

Answer 1

Mad, old friend. It's irrelevant which term gets used. In both instances a goal was intended (wipe out the "offenders") and in BOTH cases LARGE numbers of innocents were killed just to get at those FEW offenders. All we are talking about is the LEVEL of collateral damage. In Biblical times the collateral damage was extensive, in Medeival times not so extensive but yet systematic.

Now baroness makes a point, 20th and 21st century violence SEEMS to NOT be intended for the actual "offenders" BUT directed almost exclusively at the inncocent. For example, the radicals of the Middle East are offended by the U.S. Government, yet who is being attacked? Innocent Iraqis have become the intended targets, in order to "get the messge across". On 9-11, Again, the offender was the U.S Government, yet over 3,000 innocent people working in a couple of office buildings were the intended targets. In ALL cases (biblical, Medeival, and 20th-21st Century) it's STILL the innocent who have ended up paying the price, while the actual folks who should have been the targets, were the ones killed. It makes absoluetly NO sense to me whatsoever. It leaves me feeling that JUSTICE, justice as conceived with respect to the current political and Religious viewpoints, simply is NOT JUSTICE at all. It's only wrongful justification to go out and simply kill for the sake of killing. The intended targets are irrelevant.

Raji the Green Witch

Answer 2

Can't answer about the biblical part, I'm not that much of a student of the bible. Think the other must be a local phrase. Around here we say Meet You on The Street which refers both to gunfights at high noon and to fistfights off company property with no badge or rank barriers.
EDIT: Actually, I can understand how Bin Laden would not have viewed the people in the Towers as "innocent" victims. As near as I can tell, much of his rage against the US stems from our past corporate machinations combined with CIA actions to exploit their countries for US benefit and "Empire building". I'd be pissed also, and I am annoyed at many of the things the CIA has done, under Presidential oversight. Doesn't mean I wouldn't drop him at long range if I had the chance...
But then I still vote, and talk, even though it doesn't seem to do any good.

Answer 3

The weapons of Medieval were really something in the way they were designed to cause the most vicious of injuries not necessarily death

Answer 4

In mid evil times, violence was common and unreported (no phones or CNN)

In medieval times, unenlightened parents obeyed God about corporate punishment.

(No Dr Spock saying: "don't spank children, let them run into the street and die")

Answer 5

I believe this came about in the movie "Pulp Fiction".

Answer 6

What about "Getting into the 21st Century".

Answer 7

threatening to commit a violent act talk about "Getting Medieval
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