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> Armed forces killing people is a state of war. Real life is rarely this black and white.

• clob 2y ago
  Which is why we invented laws and legal systems to codify such things. Did you commit a crime, yes/no? Let's bring it to trial. The circumstances are messy in all real world instances, but the outcome is binary. Refusing to even put a president on trial is more black and white, because it's a clear "no, not illegal" without even discussion.
  • davidmurdoch 2y ago
    Courts don't even decide yes/no. Maybe is an outcome. We don't know is also an outcome.
• grotorea 2y ago
  Doubly so since almost everyone stopped bothering to declare war after WW2.