Daily Fail - Call of Duty / Geneva convention....

[CaNsA]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2070768/Could-Call-Duty-online-warriors-forced-obey-Geneva-convention.html

[pits]

Well if those bloody immigrants hadn't tried to sell all of the Queens swans then we they wouldn't have tried to sell the Royal Family for the rights to make this game.

Well that is what the article should read.

To be honest it is a bit ridiculous I mean it isn't real? Should actors face criminal prosecution for killing people in films?
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[colin1]

sillyest daily mail article ever

the geneva convention only realistically applies to symetrical warfare, where both parties had an interest in playing the game according to the same rules

in asymetric warfare, where a vastly superior force is harassed by a force with few resources, the two sides will not be playing by the same rules, as they will be using completely different tactics

war has always been a messy dirty business, there was never a time where the rules were stuck to, the rules are merely guidelines to be followed when it's useful to follow them

My grandad was involved in various bits of WWII, and he mentioned with disgust that men would kill each other over cigarettes, and thats men on the same side as them. There is no honour in war. How can you make soldiers behave, when any punishment is less than the dangers of death they face every day ? Control is very loose.

Having said that, I dont approve of the american trigger happy computer game approach to war. I think the British army's more measured responsible approach comes from the fact that we used to have an empire and so we have learnt that a measured response reduced further problems later. ie dont kill 100 people if you only need to kill 10

I still think killing people for oil is wrong but I do kind of benefit from our country's wealth which is largely built on organised theft.
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[ElliotReidMD]

[Im-a-Ridah]

Better start prosecuting chess players for treason!

[Rogerborg]

My son just decapitated me with a toy lightsabre. Does anyone have contact details for the Jedi council so that I can hand him over? He's definitely gone Sith.
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[stinkwheel]

The Geneva convention covers the treatment of prisoners of war and their property.

If you don't take any prisoners, it doesn't apply.
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[stinkwheel]

Loving some of the comments.

[pits]