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A civilian is just a soldier who hasn’t put on a uniform in this scenario, and a soldier is just a civilian who has put on a uniform. You’re making a meaningles
by ericmay 1y ago
A civilian is just a soldier who hasn’t put on a uniform in this scenario, and a soldier is just a civilian who has put on a uniform. You’re making a meaningless distinction in this context. There isn’t some sort of magic status that changes here - the same Japanese civilians were working at shipyards and ordinance factories to build weapons to kill American soldiers - you think we shouldn’t bomb those factories because we would kill Japanese civilians building weapons to kill American soldiers and that’s ok because the Americans were wearing a costume and we call them “military personnel”?
Nuts!
- yencabulator 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Conventions_of_1899_and_1907 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hague_Conventions_of_1899_and_...
- ericmay 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes?wprov=sfti...
- yencabulator 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes#World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes#World...
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- ericmay 1y agoWhat does this have to do with Japanese war crimes and violations of the conventions you linked?
- yencabulator 1y agoIf I follow your logic, you believe that other countries should have nuked a couple of major US cities. I think that's.. not a great way to go.
- ericmay 1y agoThat’s a strawman
- whoknowsidont 1y agoPlease define a strawman, in your own words. Because I don't think anyone would remotely qualify what OP said as a strawman.