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Originally Posted by tomoose
....on whether you're trying to play realistically or not. U.S. and the other allies abided by the Geneva Convention (as did Germany and I believe Japan) ergo shooting of non-combatants (which includes survivors in a lifeboat) was/is considered a criminal act (aka: murder).
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My last post on this subject....these threads seldom result in anything positive...or at least minds/opinions are not substantially changed. I could be wrong.
Anyway, with regard to the
tomoose post above, I believe there is very little evidence of Japan abiding by
any provisions of the Geneva convention, whatsoever, in action/fact or in principle. Japan was not a signatory to the 1929 Geneva convention, though that does not excuse them for ignoring the principles, thereof.
I would suggest a more thorough reading of the Documentation provided via the link in Ducimus' post....specifically by those who profess moral equivalency or equivalency of scale between allied and Japanese 'war crimes'.
Given the inital thrust of this Thread, 'what to do about ship-sinking survivors', I would suggest that some of you might try downloading and enabling a sorta "Mod" I recently made. It's a simple substitution of a new INTRO movie, a sequence in which
somewhat relates to the subject at hand. The movie swap can be done manually or via JSGME, totally reversible. You can even view it offline, so to speak, in WMP. Here's link to the thread:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=126447