Couple of dogs? Not exactly how I'd put it. Bonnie was 19 and for all intents and purposes little more than a scared kid, she was scared of everything, threatened to leave Clyde, tried to. And Clyde? Yeah it was low to shoot down cops, but fine upstanding citizens all of his victims were not, several of them were prisoners who brutalized the smaller prisoners. There's also to be taken into consideration the lengths he went to NOT to kill people when and if it could be helped, ALSO to consider that one of the killings of the gang was NOT his intention, in fact he'd given the order to let the man go, but the gunman didn't follow his orders.
It's all VERY easy to say NOW 80 years later what somebody we never met was, or what they should've done or what WE would've done if we lived 80 years ago in a different world and how we would've been the guys in the white hats dutifully doing whatever the right thing was and slowly wasting away doing so, but it's largely posturing and a lot of speculation. The truth is we really don't know how different of choices WE would've made if we were living in a time when most of the country was without jobs, money or food.
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can_ace_ian
11 years ago
Your argument became irrelevant after you brought up the fact that they KILLED people. It is wrong. The only way it would be right, is in some extreme circumstances. Self defence of yourself or a loved one.
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MyMovieTVRomance
11 years ago
Couple of dogs? Not exactly how I'd put it. Bonnie was 19 and for all intents and purposes little more than a scared kid, she was scared of everything, threatened to leave Clyde, tried to. And Clyde? Yeah it was low to shoot down cops, but fine upstanding citizens all of his victims were not, several of them were prisoners who brutalized the smaller prisoners. There's also to be taken into consideration the lengths he went to NOT to kill people when and if it could be helped, ALSO to consider that one of the killings of the gang was NOT his intention, in fact he'd given the order to let the man go, but the gunman didn't follow his orders.
It's all VERY easy to say NOW 80 years later what somebody we never met was, or what they should've done or what WE would've done if we lived 80 years ago in a different world and how we would've been the guys in the white hats dutifully doing whatever the right thing was and slowly wasting away doing so, but it's largely posturing and a lot of speculation. The truth is we really don't know how different of choices WE would've made if we were living in a time when most of the country was without jobs, money or food.
Exactly! I agree!
Please excuse typos/funny wording; I use speech-recognition that doesn't always recognize!
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