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Are you nitpicking the examples as stand-alone, or as part of the greater argument: that war does have ethics? If you're intending to say that it doesn't, I th
by mod 10y ago
Are you nitpicking the examples as stand-alone, or as part of the greater argument: that war does have ethics?
If you're intending to say that it doesn't, I think you should revisit your conclusion.
Otherwise, these were just examples of war having ethics.
- nostrademons 10y agoMy argument is that war has ethics as long as it is peacetime. As soon as it is wartime, the ethics are quickly forgotten. The ethics are remembered again once peace is restored, but only for the losing side. I've got another comment that lays out some historical examples of this [1], but there are plenty more. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13897486 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13897486 (In particular, I'm not commenting on whether war should have ethics; I agree that it should. But factually, looking at what belligerents actually do in wartime, it doesn't, at least in any meaningful sense.)