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It would have been kinder just to have shot them once each in the head, don't you think?

• sitkack 13y ago
  That would be immoral.
  • aaronem 13y ago
    And turning shipping containers into bite-size concentration camps wasn't? Your concept of morality fascinates me! Please elaborate.
    • rgrieselhuber 13y ago
      I'm guessing that was a sarcastic comment.
      • aaronem 13y ago
        Honesty compels of me the admission that I'm almost never really sure, especially in the context of comments on HN.
        • sitkack 13y ago
          I would love to meet someone who has been schooled in the rules of engagement and ask them what they think about operations like these, https://archive.org/details/AC-130_Gunship_Ops_in_Afghanistan_HighResolution https://archive.org/details/AC-130_Gunship_Ops_in_Afghanista... The asymmetry and the distance, it feels like a hit. On an equally morbid but more realistic note, why did they have to accept prisoners? Couldn't they just have "dead checked" everyone? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_checking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_checking
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