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Originally Posted by Crazycarl
Yes, leave your home and all your posessions behind and trek over a dangerous warzone to some god-forsaken refugee camp, or we'll kill you as a spy. In a time of war, people are doing everything they can to survive, and sometimes that means hunkering down in your home and waiting for it to blow over.
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When you invade a foreign land, your responsibility as a soldier is to avoid killing civilians. Survival of civilians depends on their culture, level of preparation, mental and physical toughness, and other things of their own doing. You are not there to feed them.
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Originally Posted by Crazycarl
Not to mention the idiocy of giving the enemy a month's warning of when and where you are going to attack. Even if the civilians did try to evacuate en masse, the enemy would keep them there by force to keep the city running.
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If your own military is using you as a human shield, you have a tyranny. You are morally at fault for not overthrowing the tyranny with your own blood, but rather letting the problem grow until it finally affects your neighboring states. Oh don't tell me it cannnot be done. The Egytians did it. The Libyan are attempting to do it. There is one thing in common about these people: they are willing to die to set their government right. You want to live? Well you'd better have gut, money, and wisdom. Nothing comes for free. Anyway I digressed. If your soldiers hold you a gunpoint to make you perform military duties, you have the choice to refuse. You can do the right thing by adhering to rules of war, ie, don't participate unless you are in uniform.