I find it hilarious how certain of us have such quaint ideas about war. War isn't quaint. It doesn't have your notions of honour or etiquette. There isn't a right way to kill someone and a human being doesn't stop being human just because it wears a uniform.
War will kill, maim, destroy with little regard for whoever is in its path. No-one is guilty and no-one is innocent because war doesn't presume to make such judgements. Murder, rape, torture. Travesties when performed by the other side but conventionally ignored when performed by our own. We will decorate those who we would call murderers in any other circumstance. Only in this moral vacuum where human nature is allowed to run amok would this be permitted.
War brings death on a massive scale for very little reason other than someone didn't agree with something or other, that is the only certainty war brings. If that is sufficient reason to us to ensure such an event taking place then all moral judgements thereafter are null and void. The one that counts has already been decided and not for the better but for the worse.
War will kill, maim, destroy with little regard for whoever is in its path. No-one is guilty and no-one is innocent because war doesn't presume to make such judgements. Murder, rape, torture. Travesties when performed by the other side but conventionally ignored when performed by our own. We will decorate those who we would call murderers in any other circumstance. Only in this moral vacuum where human nature is allowed to run amok would this be permitted.
War brings death on a massive scale for very little reason other than someone didn't agree with something or other, that is the only certainty war brings. If that is sufficient reason to us to ensure such an event taking place then all moral judgements thereafter are null and void. The one that counts has already been decided and not for the better but for the worse.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die."
- Abdul Alhazred.
- Abdul Alhazred.
