Message from @Bookworm

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2018-11-09 20:07:37 UTC  

but war isnt fair

2018-11-09 20:07:43 UTC  

and it will never be

2018-11-09 20:07:57 UTC  

those gooks that are currently getting bombed the shit out of them?

2018-11-09 20:08:02 UTC  

Yes, anyone who says war is fair is a fool.

2018-11-09 20:08:09 UTC  

nothing honourable about that

2018-11-09 20:08:38 UTC  

If you have 100 thousand men to their 10 thousand, you don't have 90 percent of your forces sit at home to keep things 'fair'.

2018-11-09 20:09:05 UTC  

it would be the honorable thing to do so but it doesnt happen

2018-11-09 20:09:29 UTC  

Says who?

2018-11-09 20:09:35 UTC  

You? Why?

2018-11-09 20:09:52 UTC  

sounds like pretty much the definition of honor to me

2018-11-09 20:09:53 UTC  

when you enter in a war your point is to win right?

2018-11-09 20:10:04 UTC  

doing X with fairness

2018-11-09 20:10:38 UTC  

and to win the war will you leave 90% of your army? no you wont because winning and surviving is more important than honor

2018-11-09 20:11:17 UTC  

Not if your goal is be honorable in the win. Though that rarely is the goal.

2018-11-09 20:11:19 UTC  

So, you do not recognize honorable conduct or rules of war in warfare?

2018-11-09 20:11:54 UTC  

can I post this here

2018-11-09 20:12:04 UTC  

Self evidently.

2018-11-09 20:12:19 UTC  

you can handle opponents with honor after you have won like respecting prisonors etc but winning? noone takes compromises for honor at the cost of winning

2018-11-09 20:12:25 UTC  

and you wouldnt either

2018-11-09 20:12:39 UTC  

Speak for yourself, please.

2018-11-09 20:13:07 UTC  

You may decide genociding a nation is a proper victory, but I do not.

2018-11-09 20:13:20 UTC  

can you quote me on genocide?

2018-11-09 20:13:38 UTC  

Rules of war, such as not firing on unarmed combatants is part of honor. People do comply to that even when trying to win.

2018-11-09 20:14:13 UTC  

Reason why there are POWs. If you wanted to win, it would be more effecient just to kill them.

2018-11-09 20:14:29 UTC  

"Honor is war is a luxury few can afford."

2018-11-09 20:14:35 UTC  

i wouldnt say o as pow's can be traded and makes people more eager to surrended etc

2018-11-09 20:15:19 UTC  

the reason we dont shoot surrendered is because it will lead to other soldiers refusing to surrender

2018-11-09 20:16:24 UTC  

there are indeed rules of war but those aren't based on honor as much as they are based on humanity

2018-11-09 20:16:43 UTC  

there goes alot more into not shooting a civillian than just protecting your honor

2018-11-09 20:16:48 UTC  

Treating prisoners humanly is something that is encouraged by rules of war, but seldom seen.

2018-11-09 20:17:37 UTC  

thats is an entirely different topic but i cant disagree

2018-11-09 20:18:30 UTC  

in ww2 for example alot of soldiers who captured germans had alot of built up anger for them, so even from the allied side there where quite a bit of war crimes

2018-11-09 20:19:44 UTC  

Yeah. Especially as the (Western) Allies occupied into the Reich and found the German "Camps".

2018-11-09 20:20:25 UTC  

yes and i can completely understand why they did it i dont agree with those people but i understand why

2018-11-09 20:20:58 UTC  

the russians went at it aswell

2018-11-09 20:21:08 UTC  

The Soviets have never abided by the rules about humanly treating POWs.

2018-11-09 20:21:15 UTC  

yeah

2018-11-09 20:21:37 UTC  

but point is nobody is perfect enough to fignt an honorable war

2018-11-09 20:21:51 UTC  

as well just resort to what helps us the most

2018-11-09 20:21:57 UTC  

its in our human nature