The rules of war

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These rules have saved countless lives throughout the years, they basically protect everyone, even if your enemy does not follow these rules by holding yourself to a higher moral standard you can show that you are the on the side of right...

Besides, these days any developed country that doesn't follow these rules gets such a pr backlash that it is worth following them for that reason alone...

Backlash? As in the UN sending them a letter saying they "the bad country are being bad boys" because they didn't follow rules?

[Productivity]

Backlash? As in the UN sending them a letter saying they "the bad country are being bad boys" because they didn't follow rules?

Backlash as in an extended and intensive insurgency that costs thosands of US lives? Am I talking in the realm of hypothesis, or has the US found somewhere to demonstrate why following the rules is a good idea?

Do you know anyone who has died in Iraq? Do you think that maybe if the US had followed the rules, the insurgent who had taken their life may not have been so outraged to commit extreme violence?

This isn't a shot at the US specifically - it apples to jsut about every nation that has been involved in war - the US is just an example that's probably a lot closer to most people here.

[Rhyfelwyr]

It's like the situation with raising chickens. Some people say, if we are going to eat them anyway, why be nice to them and put them on free range when we could just pour grain down their throats through tubes 24/7.

Some weapons are disproportionately cruel considering their effectiveness.

[InsaneApache]

Have you seen the price of an 'organic' 'free range' chicken these days?

Give me a battery hen anytime, they're a quater of the price.

Force fed by tubes is foi gras. Not chucks.