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Originally Posted by Skybird
Saving the civilians and letting the fighters escape, by that I helpt to strengthen the enemy, I will loose more men,. give the enemy more opporntunities to strike at ma side, the war becomes longer, which offers for chances in time for people to die, short: things become worse. Now, where is room for moral in that?
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This is exactly why you have incidents like Mi Lai and Malmedy. Because men with a bent moral compass reasoning that “hay if I slow down to process these 81 prisoners I could miss my objective causing the lives of more of my country men.” Or Cali’s point of view: “The Viet cong use the village at night and I know they are here and attack us by day and the only way to be sure I get the right ones is to kill them all.” This way they wont kill me or my men later on.”
So you see morals (good or bad) do play a part even in war.