Compassionate Fascism?

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Col Frost

I've recently become more uneasy and somehat troubled by the moral dilemma of sinking merchant ships, much like the area bombing of civilians during the war by both sides, which I believe was a mistake and also wasted huge numbers of (especially) allied airmen, for limited results.

I'd be troubled by the dilemma if it involved actual civilians. If it troubles you too much just think of them as robot ships with a crew of mindless mechanical cyborgs which is much closer to the reality any computer game generates for you. In the end it's just a 3-D set full of 3-D objects pretending to represent a difficult period in history and probably missing the mark by 99% when you consider all the myriad human and natural factors involved.

To take this sort of dilemma to the extreme you would also have to abstain from Chess. After all, those cannon fodder pawns in the front rank represent the poor down-trodden peasant serfs who have no say in how their lives are thrown away by the nobility one rank behind them.