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What’s stopping you?
The ability to fly.
Where’s this from?
Is it just me, or does that mask look really really plastic? I feel like the prop mask they used on the CW shows looked better
‘you have become the very thing you swore to destroy’
idk if assassination is a warcrime when killing foot soldiers is acceptable.
Also doubt that such a method is outlawed, as it's probably never happened.
I’m guessing that anymore that has dropped people out of planes would need to capture the people first, making it cruelty to POWs, whereas I would wanna fly into their base with superpowers and pancake them near where I got them. Don’t think they’d be considered POWs when I just could’ve bashed their faces in with a mace. Until they specifically outlaw that, I’m still acting within the rules of warfare.
yeah i mean this really aint serious so just for the sake of theoreticals if we say that for whatever reason dropping enemy combatants from altitude is your only/most effective form of combat then it may be justified, however if done for any other reason it would be in violation of the following international law:
Geneva Conventions (1949) – Common Article 3
"Persons taking no active part in the hostilities… shall in all circumstances be treated humanely… the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:
- (a) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture…"
— Common Article 3, Geneva Conventions of 1949
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998)
Article 8(2)(b)(xxi):
“Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;”Article 8(2)(b)(xxv):
“Employing means of warfare which are of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering;”Article 8(2)(a)(i):
“Wilful killing” of persons protected under the Geneva Conventions is a war crime.Customary International Humanitarian Law (ICRC Study, 2005)
Rule 70: Weapons or methods of warfare which are of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering are prohibited.
Rule 90: Torture, cruel or inhuman treatment and outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment, are prohibited.
and also you should have a moral obligation to treat humans humanely, if nothing else, but thats just my opinion
If violence is ok towards poor people employed by a military but the not ones hiring them, then maybe that’s why people feel so comfortable hiring people to kill other people. I’m not big on punishing people who will never harm others again, but those that are currently or will likely cause harm should be fair game. I consider the person who gives the orders more culpable as the person who pulls the trigger, so killing a leader is better than killing their human tools.
As far as humanely goes, it’s a mutual agreement that requires reasonable expectation of reciprocation. In a world where these laws are virtually never enforced, the best we can do is do onto others what they do onto you. The individuals who knowingly work to kill innocent people need to be stopped with any means necessary.
Things like killing innocents of their tribe are never justified, but the people actively working to kill have enabled PVP. To not view it as such is to give up resistance in any meaningful form. The only reason one should not kill active war criminals is if there is no reasonable chance of success.
i agree that the morality of the situation is foggy and may feel in conflict with established law, and i in no way intend to make an appeal to authority and say that these laws define what morality on the battlefield is, i just felt like pointing out the technical blemish of the meme
For curiosity’s sake: do they define “active part”? Do propagandists take an active part in hostilities by riling the base to actions?
good point, no, propagandists are not active combatants, because they do not engage in combat (unless they are also soldiers). this kind of thinking follows from the idea that civilians contributing to the economy of a warring country could by the same logic be deemed combatants, which would be undesirable for the intetests of minimizing civillian loss
- (a) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture…"
