On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:22:59PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:46:15AM +0000, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > ..even killing the enemy is illegal if you can "just" wound him to put > > him out of the war, the most effective way is have your snipers plink > > femurs at balls height. ;o) > > > Of course, wounding the enemy is nearly *always* more desirable than > outright killing him. That is because every wounded soldier takes at > least one other soldier (or other person, even if not a soldier) in > order to care for his wounds in the short term. So, from a resource > perspective, wounded soldiers place a much heavier burden on a military > force than corpses.
OTOH, wounded soldiers, even mortally wounded ones, often continue to fight, so its hard to justify such moral calculus in the heat of battle - one way or the other. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
