RE: Tit for tat.
August 2, 2022 at 4:12 pm
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2022 at 4:14 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(August 2, 2022 at 4:03 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(August 2, 2022 at 3:48 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Every nation agrees, yes. It's the kind of thing a nation claims a right to, because ofc they would.
The practical alternative is to let butchers butcher without so much as the hint of consequence provided they do so remotely. Kings used to run a similar con - where kings don't kill kings - as that would be uncouth. All the fighting and dying is for the little people in contained battlefields. It's all pretty terrible, any way we go with it - but we left the field of perfectly ethical situations and unconstrained ethical choices the minute we started talking about human conflict, didn't we? There's a good chance that there is no ethical resolution to some problems.
Why not just arrest murderers?
We DO arrest murderers, but that’s not applicable to this. Military combatants - which, under the rules of war, includes most terrorists and terrorist organizations - are not murderers.
Killers, yes. War criminals, frequently. But not every killing is a murder.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
