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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Side note: The American army unofficially encourages their combat arms branch soldiers to shoot wounded combatants during combat and to double-tap the wounded and the dead while assaulting through killzones so they don't have to worry about 'bullshit rules' relating to capturing POWs including 'bullshit' things such as delivering life-saving first aid or the "hassle" of transporting them to a location to properly process them as POWs under the international rules of war.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemme put it this way. If I'm a brown person and I've made an enemy of both the Taliban and the U.S. military: which side do you think is better to be caught by? The side that will put a bullet in your head, or the side that will put an electric drill inside your head?

War is war. Either you are appalled that people are killing each other or you aren't, don't act like murderers not following "rules" matters to you.

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago