Message from @DefinitlyNotInsane - NL
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those gooks that are currently getting bombed the shit out of them?
Yes, anyone who says war is fair is a fool.
nothing honourable about that
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'.
it would be the honorable thing to do so but it doesnt happen
Says who?
You? Why?
sounds like pretty much the definition of honor to me
when you enter in a war your point is to win right?
doing X with fairness
and to win the war will you leave 90% of your army? no you wont because winning and surviving is more important than honor
Not if your goal is be honorable in the win. Though that rarely is the goal.
So, you do not recognize honorable conduct or rules of war in warfare?
can I post this here
Self evidently.
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
and you wouldnt either
Speak for yourself, please.
You may decide genociding a nation is a proper victory, but I do not.
Rules of war, such as not firing on unarmed combatants is part of honor. People do comply to that even when trying to win.
Reason why there are POWs. If you wanted to win, it would be more effecient just to kill them.
"Honor is war is a luxury few can afford."
i wouldnt say o as pow's can be traded and makes people more eager to surrended etc
the reason we dont shoot surrendered is because it will lead to other soldiers refusing to surrender
there are indeed rules of war but those aren't based on honor as much as they are based on humanity
there goes alot more into not shooting a civillian than just protecting your honor
Treating prisoners humanly is something that is encouraged by rules of war, but seldom seen.
thats is an entirely different topic but i cant disagree
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
Yeah. Especially as the (Western) Allies occupied into the Reich and found the German "Camps".
yes and i can completely understand why they did it i dont agree with those people but i understand why
the russians went at it aswell
The Soviets have never abided by the rules about humanly treating POWs.
yeah
but point is nobody is perfect enough to fignt an honorable war
as well just resort to what helps us the most
its in our human nature
Soviet "Advisors" went into Vietnam to "Question" (Torture) US pilots downed over the North.
And, according to Insane, all of these actions were justified by the realities of war and the Soviets couldn't and shouldn't be held morally responsible for them.