RE: Tit for tat.
August 2, 2022 at 4:34 pm
(This post was last modified: August 2, 2022 at 4:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 2, 2022 at 4:03 pm)Jehanne Wrote:In the case in question? We did try that..again, told to pound sand - that's how the war started.(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?
(August 2, 2022 at 4:24 pm)Jehanne Wrote:Terrorists could and do say any number of things - and honestly..they don't need any such justification...but who cares? Most americans aren't combatants. Word..what does it mean?(August 2, 2022 at 4:12 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 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
By the same standards, terrorists could kill most Americans; just label them "combatants". Who decides such labels??
In this case, it means that the us is committed to recognizing the difference between combatants and civilians, whereas the terrorists are not, and only pay lip service to such notions for propagandistic effect.
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