Macedon
11-29-2002, 17:19
From the beginning of warfare(that is-when a gorilla found another way of using a bone http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif ),there is one interesting post-battle...thing: a crime of passion.I say interesting 'cause it seems keeping in intensity even today when we all are (allegedly)civisized.
The crime of passion occurs immediately after battle when the emotions are still on animal(?)level,and hunger of vengeance is all that exists in the soldiers minds.It often manifests as spontaneous lining up and shoting of captured soldiers,torturing the wounded,shooting of local civilians,raping...
It is a crime that is recognised by UN,is considered an atrocity,but treated in a lesser manner than most war atrocities.
Is Crime of passion acceptable?
Does it takes 1000 years more so that we over-evolve it?
Can it be prevented in the first place?
Would you as a commander permit it?(Don't tell me you've never pressed the kill prisonersbutton in the chaos of battle http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
The crime of passion occurs immediately after battle when the emotions are still on animal(?)level,and hunger of vengeance is all that exists in the soldiers minds.It often manifests as spontaneous lining up and shoting of captured soldiers,torturing the wounded,shooting of local civilians,raping...
It is a crime that is recognised by UN,is considered an atrocity,but treated in a lesser manner than most war atrocities.
Is Crime of passion acceptable?
Does it takes 1000 years more so that we over-evolve it?
Can it be prevented in the first place?
Would you as a commander permit it?(Don't tell me you've never pressed the kill prisonersbutton in the chaos of battle http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif