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Pretending to surrender, then not surrendering very much is a war crime. So the leadership gets to decide whether to be war criminals, or to go prosecute those
by NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
Pretending to surrender, then not surrendering very much is a war crime.
So the leadership gets to decide whether to be war criminals, or to go prosecute those who refuse as ordinary (or extraordinary?) criminals.
- denton-scratch 3y ago> Pretending to surrender, then not surrendering very much is a war crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_(military)#False_surrender https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_(military)#False_sur... The very notion of a "war crime" only arrived in the 20thC. More generally (as Wikipedia notes) the act amounts to perfidy, which isn't a crime anywhere I know about.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y agoI don't know the etymology of the term, but claiming that the idea itself didn't exist until the 20th is absurd. I see no point in arguing with you anymore. So that you can feel better, you're 100% absolutely right, and you won this argument with me and all future arguments because of your plainly superior intellect and bright, friendly personality. Game over. Goodbye.