- Aug 20, 2000
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My stance: Fsck the entire thing. Seriously.
When we're talking total war WW1 and WW2 style, it's a stupid idea to begin with - war is about killing people and breaking sh!t. If you're in a war, I would hope that you would not play nice with captured captains, majors or whatevers instead of torturing them if you could possibly get information out of them that could save the lives of your own comrades at arms. Obviously torture for the sheer sake of torture when they aren't going to be able to resume fighting you is pretty pointless.
If it's nation vs. nation instead of the nation vs. gov't thing we see lately, bomb hospitals in the first wave to kill the doctors and impede their people from recovering to storm the battlefield the next day. I'd stop short at WMDs like nukes or germ warfare though if possible because it's a cat you don't want to let out of the bag, but if your opponent used them first, let 'em fly!
IMO, the brutal honesty is that in war, your people are more important than their people. What do you think?
When we're talking total war WW1 and WW2 style, it's a stupid idea to begin with - war is about killing people and breaking sh!t. If you're in a war, I would hope that you would not play nice with captured captains, majors or whatevers instead of torturing them if you could possibly get information out of them that could save the lives of your own comrades at arms. Obviously torture for the sheer sake of torture when they aren't going to be able to resume fighting you is pretty pointless.
If it's nation vs. nation instead of the nation vs. gov't thing we see lately, bomb hospitals in the first wave to kill the doctors and impede their people from recovering to storm the battlefield the next day. I'd stop short at WMDs like nukes or germ warfare though if possible because it's a cat you don't want to let out of the bag, but if your opponent used them first, let 'em fly!
IMO, the brutal honesty is that in war, your people are more important than their people. What do you think?