what the hell is up with the war rules, why do we need them, war is war, your objective is to kill the other person and not get killed, i think anything should go and i also think that anyone who has the balls to pick up a weapon, women, child, or elderly i think should be killed because its there stupid descion to keep fighting, they just need to lay down there weapons you dont fight someone who is stronger than you, didnt they learn nothing from japan when they came an screwed up pearl harbor...but anyways why do we have war rules, and what are they exactly i know some of them....i just think its so stupid to have rules, its not a game...........
2006-06-25 08:40:36 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
i got something to say about the response so far, war is dumb yes i agree, i just think if the other contry dont wanna play buy the rules throw down and we wont play by the rules either
2006-06-25 08:48:45 · update #1
caus countries like USA and organisations like NATO
can fight against contries like as (Macedonia, Yugoslavia)
cause we have primitive but very usefull techics of war
2006-06-25 08:44:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think a little WAR 101 is needed here.
The Geneva Convention is the place and time where war rules were set in stone and agreed upon by everyone to be honored.
These rules are the universal Bill of rights, if you will. If you ever took a philosophy class you will know that some think that everyone has some BASIC rights. The Geneva convention addresses this and also specifies conduct that is expected during war.
The reason is that WAR by nature is barbaric but we are supposedly "civilized" because of all the new tech toys, inventions, etc. So that the line will not get blurred we are expected to still at in a civilized manner.
Another big reason is that at some point the war will end and if YOU behaved as bad as the loser then where is the difference. So you will be at a moral disadvantage and also will face legal problems. ie. If soldiers raped women, stole art, desecarted the sanctity of a church.
So although the human race accepts that..to date we have not come up with a better way to solve our differences besides war. This primitive behavior can be curtailed by laws that were written to protect innocents and excess force of prisoners.
Basically, 2 wrongs don't make a right. But JUST in case.....we are creating laws so that we can take legal action against you.
2006-06-29 21:59:56 · answer #2 · answered by acm7680 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a moral reason, a practical (self-interested) reason, and a logical reason for having rules of civilized warfare.
The moral reason is that unnecessary killing is wrong per se.
The practical reason is that "the first shall be last" one day, and if America some day becomes a battleground, or even if you are an American soldier captured abroad, you wouldn't want your enemy to have any additional incitements to torture or unnecessarily kill you than the stress of war already creates.
The logical reason is that since public war fever is typically stoked with propaganda stories (some true, some not) about the wholesale cruelty of the other side, behaving like the other side undercuts a major reason for the war taking place.
2006-06-25 16:02:38 · answer #3 · answered by Mr. Denny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rules are in place to make sure that atrocities arent committed. When women and children, and your average man in the street pick up arms against the invading force, then that is the sentiment of the nation. Even if you throw out the rules, should we just kill everyone and leave the country a wasteland?
2006-06-25 15:55:26 · answer #4 · answered by zw88 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do agree that the Geneva Convention rules are ridiculous. War is the failure of civility, whereas rules are the hallmark of civilization. Attempting to civilize war is futile.
Also, where war unrestrained by such rules and its barbarities allowed to manifest themselves fully, perhaps we would not so readily go to war.
2006-06-25 16:48:34 · answer #5 · answered by rlw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately this is somewhat true. Terrorists don't fight with rules. We are currently trying to fight a Guerrilla War with rules and this doesn't work.
2006-06-25 15:45:46 · answer #6 · answered by *AstrosChick* 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you that war is unnessesary, but war's objective isn't to kill the other person. War is generally used to persude another country that "my way is best." They have war rules to prevent like mass murder's and stuff like that...To prevent another Holocaust. I believe that one war rule is not to harm cilvilians intentionally if they pose no threat.
2006-06-25 15:44:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rules for the proper conduct during war were set up so that if one side breaks these rules, we can tell which side is the evil one.
2006-06-25 15:45:15 · answer #8 · answered by Joseph L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not so much for the other country as your own... Who wants to come out of a war looking like Hitler?
2006-06-25 15:46:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
YOU MUST BE AN ANTI AMERICAN REPUBLICAN. Is war so important to you? Is killing innocent children so gratifying to you? You dont deserve to live in America. Get out of my country and move to saudi arabia. You are no different than a terrorist
2006-06-25 15:45:51 · answer #10 · answered by ast5792 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋