From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun Apr 14 2002 - 05:02:10 MDT
James Rogers wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 16:23, CurtAdams@aol.com wrote:
>
>>Who has a problem with judging soldiers fairly? The fact that people
>>can and do go haywire in combat further increases the value of recording
>>as much as possible of the situation so that we can figure out how to
>>improve functioning in difficult situations, and alter conflicts so that
>>all participants act as constructively as possilble. Recording actions
>>doesn't require unjust use of the data.
>>
>
>
> I don't have a problem with this either. What I was objecting to was
> the idea that a soldier should have to justify every pull of the trigger
> in a firefight to ordinary civilian standards after the fact. In
No, but he does have to justify them by international military
standards. War is not regular civilian life. But it also
should not be an utter free-for-all slaugther devoid of any
honor or humanity whatsoever.
- samantha
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